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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

The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Force Men
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Harm Irreparable Months Shining
It’s crazy how you can get yourself in a mess sometimes and not even be able to think about it with any sense and yet not be able to think about anything else.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Crazy Thinking
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Death Hair Science
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Destruction Planets Scales
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
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Running War Wells
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Abused Alcohol Giving Used
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Practice Punishment Violence
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Dying Fear Tomorrow
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Book School Years

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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