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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

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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Book Cutting Eye
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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Upset Violence Years
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
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Practice Punishment Violence
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
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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might Optimism Views
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
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
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying

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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