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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.

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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

might Optimism Views
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
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
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
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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
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
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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Crazy Thinking
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.
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Practice Punishment Violence
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men

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