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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

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
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
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
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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Apocalypse Program Thinking
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
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
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
You have not yet learned that in this life you have to be like everyone else: the perfect mediocrity–no better, no worse. Individuality is a monster and it must be strangled in its cradle to make our friends feel comfortable.
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Individuality Monsters Perfect
The first really important book I read about filmmaking was The Film Technique by Pudovkin. This was some time before I had ever touched a movie camera and it opened my eyes to cutting and montage.
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Book Cutting Eye
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
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political

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