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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.

Stanley Kubrick

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
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
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
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 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
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
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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.
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Practice Punishment Violence
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

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