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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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
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
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
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
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
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
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
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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

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

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