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

Stanley Kubrick

Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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
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 great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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.
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Appreciate Reality Secret
I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
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Death Hair Science
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Men Symphony Writing
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Fear Marine War
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

might Optimism Views
You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Beautiful Film Men

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

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