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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 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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Men Symphony Writing
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
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
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Harm Irreparable Months Shining
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
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
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
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

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

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