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Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.

Stanley Kubrick

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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Darkness Life Light Meaning
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress 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 not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
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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Care Way
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
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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Fear Marine War
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
You’re constantly changing man. But the film’s not changing. The film stays the same. That’s the beautiful aspect of it.
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Beautiful Film Men
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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
A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
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might Optimism Views
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.
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Individuality Monsters Perfect
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.
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Death Hair Science
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

Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.

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