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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.

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
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
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
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
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
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
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

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