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Critical opinion on my films has always been salvaged by what I would call subsequent critical opinion.

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The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive
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Alive Jackets Knows
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
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
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.
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Crazy Thinking
Don’t do anything. Just tolerate me and let me suffer, knowing how you feel.
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Knowing Rejection Tolerance
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
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
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
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
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
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
The whole idea of god is absurd. If anything, ‘2001’ shows that what some people call ‘god’ is simply an acceptable term for their ignorance. What they don’t understand, they call ‘god’ -Stanley Kubrick, interview, 1963
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Ideas Ignorance People

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