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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

It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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Darkness Life Light Meaning
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
The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, ‘2001’ shows that what some people call ‘god’ is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don’t understand, they call ‘god’ -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963
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Ideas Ignorance People
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
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Book Cutting Eye
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
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Crazy Thinking
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
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
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
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
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
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
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

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