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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

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
The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
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Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
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
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
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
A satirist is someone who has a very skeptical view of human nature, but who still has the optimism to make some sort of a joke out of it. However brutal that joke might be.
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might Optimism Views
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
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

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