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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

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
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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Apocalypse Program Thinking
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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
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 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
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
A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
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might Optimism Views
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village

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