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

Stanley Kubrick

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

Crazy Thinking
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Harm Irreparable Months Shining
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 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
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
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
The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, ‘2001’ shows that what some people call ‘god’ is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don’t understand, they call ‘god’ -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963
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Ideas Ignorance People
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking

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