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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

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
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Fear Marine War
I used and abused drugs and alcohol. When I stopped doing that it became a lot clearer that life goes from inside to giving as opposed to taking and destroying.
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Abused Alcohol Giving Used
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
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
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
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
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’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
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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Apocalypse Program Thinking
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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Individuality Monsters Perfect
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Book School Years

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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