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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

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
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
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
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
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
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.
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Book School Years
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
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
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
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.
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Appreciate Reality Secret
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Men Symphony Writing
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales

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