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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.

Stanley Kubrick

It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
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.
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Appreciate Reality Secret
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
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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.
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Atheist Cosmic Mystery
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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Beautiful Film Men
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments

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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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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