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

Stanley Kubrick

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
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
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
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 got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
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Artists Criminal Weaknesses
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Appreciate Reality Secret
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
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Care Way

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