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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

New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
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Atheist Cosmic Mystery
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
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
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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Beautiful Film Men
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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 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
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
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’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
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men

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