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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

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
The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, ‘2001’ shows that what some people call ‘god’ is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don’t understand, they call ‘god’ -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963
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Ideas Ignorance People
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
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
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
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
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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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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Death Hair Science
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.
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Crazy Thinking
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
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Fear Marine War
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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

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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