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

Stanley Kubrick

Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
I’ve never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice.
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Practice Punishment Violence
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
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
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Men Symphony Writing
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
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 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
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
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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
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
There’s something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.
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Clear Enigma Personality
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
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village

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

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