The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
STANLEY KUBRICKYou 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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The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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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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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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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 great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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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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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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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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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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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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