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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

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
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Fear Marine War
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Atheist Cosmic Mystery
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Men Rejection Smell
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Appreciate Reality Secret
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Destruction Planets Scales
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
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICK

History Humour Political
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Force Men
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Editing Phases Thinking
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
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Critical Film Opinion
Everybody has their black moments.
STANLEY KUBRICK

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

Creative Men Shooting

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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