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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.

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
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
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
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
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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Darkness Life Light Meaning
You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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End Movie World
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
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
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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Editing Phases Thinking
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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Artists Criminal Weaknesses
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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Individuality Monsters Perfect
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
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
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
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
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
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
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
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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Apocalypse Program Thinking

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