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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

Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Upset Violence Years
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
STANLEY KUBRICK

Pills Stress Thinking
I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Editing Phases Thinking
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Men Rejection Smell
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Critical Film Opinion
The screen is a magic medium.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Magic Mediums Screen
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’ This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Appreciate Reality Secret
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Book Cutting Eye
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICK

History Humour Political
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Men Shooting
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Darkness Life Light Meaning
You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Beautiful Film Men
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Harm Irreparable Months Shining
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Destruction Spoiled
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Knowing Rejection Tolerance
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Individuality Monsters Perfect

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