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I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

Stanley Kubrick

The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Destruction Planets Scales
I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Editing Phases Thinking
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
STANLEY KUBRICK

Pills Stress Thinking
How could we possibly appreciate the Mona Lisa if Leonardo had written at the bottom of the canvas: ‘The lady is smiling because she is hiding a secret from her lover.’ This would shackle the viewer to reality, and I don’t want this to happen to 2001.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Appreciate Reality Secret
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Heart Learning Moving
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

Book Cutting Eye
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
STANLEY KUBRICK

All Film Making Time Unhappy
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Book School Years
The screen is a magic medium.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Magic Mediums Screen
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Happiness Men Money
New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Atheist Cosmic Mystery
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Crazy Thinking
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Running War Wells
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Art Causes Life
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
STANLEY KUBRICK

Film Hollywood Trying

I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

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I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.

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