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

Stanley Kubrick

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 great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICK

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

Like Movie Obsessed
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Knowing Rejection Tolerance
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Fear Marine War
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Abused Alcohol Giving Used
There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Clear Enigma Personality
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Darkness Life Light Meaning
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Confuse Mistake Pity
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Harm Irreparable Months Shining
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
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Artists Criminal Weaknesses
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Care Way
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 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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Individuality Monsters Perfect

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