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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.

Stanley Kubrick

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
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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Apocalypse Program Thinking
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
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
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
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
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
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money

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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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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