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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

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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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End Movie World
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
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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Individuality Monsters Perfect
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
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
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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress 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
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
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell

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