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Stanley Kubrick

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
STANLEY KUBRICK

Ideas Ignorance People
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
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
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
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
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
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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Done Jobs Story
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
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
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
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
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

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