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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.

Stanley Kubrick

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
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
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
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
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 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
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
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
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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Done Jobs Story
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments

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