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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

Stanley Kubrick

Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
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’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
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Men Symphony Writing
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
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
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
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed

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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