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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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The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
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’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
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
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
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
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
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
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 love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
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Editing Phases Thinking
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
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

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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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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