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I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.

Stanley Kubrick

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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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
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.
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Atheist Cosmic Mystery
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
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
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 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
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
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
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’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow

I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.

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