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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.

Stanley Kubrick

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
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
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
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Harm Irreparable Months Shining
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
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
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
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
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
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

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