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Stanley Kubrick

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
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
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
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
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
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
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
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
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
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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money

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