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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

How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
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
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
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
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
Everything has already been done. every story has been told every scene has been shot. it’s our job to do it one better.
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Done Jobs Story
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
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’m not saying we wouldn’t get our hair mussed, Mr. President, but I do say not more than ten to twenty million dead depending upon the breaks.
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Death Hair Science
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
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
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
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
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed

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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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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