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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 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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
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
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Book School Years
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
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.
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Editing Phases Thinking
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 either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
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End Movie World
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
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.
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Abused Alcohol Giving Used
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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Done Jobs Story
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

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

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

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