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Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.

Stanley Kubrick

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
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
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
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
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
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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
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
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
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

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