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Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.

Stanley Kubrick

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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Heart Learning Moving
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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Beautiful Film Men
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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Care Way
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
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Atheist Cosmic Mystery
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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Artists Criminal Weaknesses
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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Clear Enigma Personality
You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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End Movie World
I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
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Abused Alcohol Giving Used
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking

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