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

Stanley Kubrick

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
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
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
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.
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Appreciate Reality Secret
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
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
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
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’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
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Practice Punishment Violence
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

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