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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 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
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
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Crazy Thinking
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
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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Upset Violence Years
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.
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Artists Criminal Weaknesses
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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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Clear Enigma Personality
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 very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking

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