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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

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Critical Film Opinion
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
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Men Shooting
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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Done Jobs Story
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
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
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’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Running War Wells
You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICK

End Movie World
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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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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