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

Stanley Kubrick

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
Sanitised violence in movies has been accepted for years. What seems to upset everybody now is the showing of the consequences of violence.
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Upset Violence Years
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.
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Practice Punishment Violence
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.
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Book Cutting Eye
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
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.
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Crazy Thinking
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.
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Appreciate Reality Secret
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
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

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