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

Stanley Kubrick

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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Darkness Life Light Meaning
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
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
STANLEY KUBRICK

All Film Making Time Unhappy
Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.
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Critical Film Opinion
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
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Practice Punishment Violence
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
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
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Confuse Mistake Pity
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

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
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 dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows

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