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Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.

Stanley Kubrick

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
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
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
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
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
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
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
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
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
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
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
I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
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Editing Phases Thinking
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
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
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 afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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 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
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
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Crazy Thinking
I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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Artists Criminal Weaknesses

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