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A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.

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
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
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
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
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
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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Clear Enigma Personality

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