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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

Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Like Movie Obsessed
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Book Cutting Eye
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
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
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Upset Violence Years
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
I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Practice Punishment Violence
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Death Hair Science
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
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Book School Years

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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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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