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

Stanley Kubrick

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
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
Bad films gave me the courage to try making a movie
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Film Hollywood Trying
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 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 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
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
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
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy

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

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