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

Stanley Kubrick

Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Critical Film Opinion
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
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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Ideas Ignorance People
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Creative Force Men
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 have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Individuality Monsters Perfect
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
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
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Harm Irreparable Months Shining
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Darkness Life Light Meaning
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
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
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Confuse Mistake Pity

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

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