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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

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
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
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
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
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
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Death Hair Science
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

might Optimism Views
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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Appreciate Reality Secret
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
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

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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