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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

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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
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’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
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
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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Clear Enigma Personality
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
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
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 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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life

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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