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Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.

Stanley Kubrick

I’ve got a peculiar weakness for criminals and artists. Neither takes life as it is. Any tragic story has to be in conflict with things as they are.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Artists Criminal Weaknesses
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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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might Optimism Views
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
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Apocalypse Program Thinking
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
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
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
Shooting a movie is the worst milieu for creative work ever devised by man.
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Creative Men Shooting
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
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Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
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
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
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
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

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