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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.

Stanley Kubrick

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
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
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Men Symphony Writing
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Harm Irreparable Months Shining
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
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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
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
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
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
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.
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Individuality Monsters Perfect
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion

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