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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

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 very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Force 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
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
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
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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
A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
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might Optimism Views
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
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
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’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow

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