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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

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
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Art Causes Life
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Running War Wells
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Happiness Men Money
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
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Done Jobs Story
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Confuse Mistake Pity
You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICK

End Movie World
How does anybody ever think of anything?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Anything Nobody 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
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Appreciate Reality Secret
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Abused Alcohol Giving Used
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Idealist Idiots Pity Village
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
STANLEY KUBRICK

All Film Making Time Unhappy

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