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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

Stanley Kubrick

One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
STANLEY KUBRICK

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

Creative Force Men
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Art Causes Life
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Apocalypse Program Thinking
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
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Harm Irreparable Months Shining
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 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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Editing Phases Thinking
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Men Rejection Smell
You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Beautiful Film Men
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Like Movie Obsessed
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Done Jobs Story
Everybody has their black moments.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Black Everybody Moments
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
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Idealist Idiots Pity Village
The screen is a magic medium.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Magic Mediums Screen

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