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

Stanley Kubrick

You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
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
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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 dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
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
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
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
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 great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity

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