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

Stanley Kubrick

I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
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
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
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Fear Marine War
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
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
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Book School Years
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.
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Editing Phases 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

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