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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001

Stanley Kubrick

I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Book School Years
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Force Men
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
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Happiness Men Money
I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Practice Punishment Violence
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Apocalypse Program 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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Atheist Cosmic Mystery
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
STANLEY KUBRICK

Film Hollywood Trying
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
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
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICK

History Humour Political
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Men Symphony Writing
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Men Shooting
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
STANLEY KUBRICK

All Film Making Time Unhappy

Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001

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