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How does anybody ever think of anything?

Stanley Kubrick

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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Appreciate Reality Secret
You either connect or you don’t connect. It’s not the end of the world. It’s a movie.
STANLEY KUBRICK

End Movie World
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Atheist Cosmic Mystery
Here’s to five miserable months on the wagon and the irreparable harm that it’s caused me.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Harm Irreparable Months Shining
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
STANLEY KUBRICK

History Humour Political
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
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Critical Film Opinion
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Confuse Mistake Pity
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
STANLEY KUBRICK

Happiness Men Money
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Destruction Spoiled
The screen is a magic medium.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Magic Mediums Screen
Either you care, or you don’t. There’s no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Care Way
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
One man writes a novel. One man writes a symphony. It is essential that one man make a film.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Men Symphony Writing
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Crazy Thinking

How does anybody ever think of anything?

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