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

Stanley Kubrick

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
I’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
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Death Hair Science
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
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody 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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity

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