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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

How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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
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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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End Movie World
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
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
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
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance

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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