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One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.

Stanley Kubrick

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
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
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
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
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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Heart Learning Moving
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
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

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