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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.

Stanley Kubrick

Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
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
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 very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
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
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 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
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
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Care Way
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can come to terms with this indifference, then our existence as a species can have genuine meaning. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light.
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Darkness Life Light Meaning
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
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
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy

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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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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