How does anybody ever think of anything?
STANLEY KUBRICKThe 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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Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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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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You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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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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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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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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Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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