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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?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Happiness Men Money
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
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
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
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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Done Jobs Story
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
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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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
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
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.
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might Optimism Views
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, 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

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