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You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.

Stanley Kubrick

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICK

History Humour Political
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
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
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
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
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Harm Irreparable Months Shining
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Book School 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
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
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 screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
New York was the only really hostile city. Perhaps there is a certain element of the lumpen literati that is so dogmatically atheist and materialist and Earth-bound that it finds the grandeur of space and the myriad mysteries of cosmic intelligence anathema.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Atheist Cosmic Mystery
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

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