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All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

Stanley Kubrick

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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Appreciate Reality Secret
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Confuse Mistake Pity
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
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
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, 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
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
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Death Hair Science
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow

All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.

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