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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

Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
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
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
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
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
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
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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
I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
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Death Hair Science
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 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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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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