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The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.

Stanley Kubrick

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Men Shooting
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Practice Punishment Violence
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Confuse Mistake Pity
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Book Cutting Eye
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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Heart Learning Moving
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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Care Way
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Clear Enigma Personality
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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Upset Violence Years
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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Darkness Life Light Meaning
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
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
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow

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