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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

You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Heart Learning Moving
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Appreciate Reality Secret
God has a hard-on for a Marine because we kill everything we see. He plays His game, we play ours.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Fear Marine War
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Atheist Cosmic Mystery
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Men Rejection Smell
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Book Cutting Eye
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Artists Criminal Weaknesses
How does anybody ever think of anything?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Anything Nobody Thinking
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Care Way
There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Clear Enigma Personality
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Upset Violence Years
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Confuse Mistake Pity
You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICK

End Movie World
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Destruction Spoiled

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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