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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

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
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 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
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
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
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
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
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
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.
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Abused Alcohol Giving Used

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