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

Stanley Kubrick

The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions and moods that no other art form can hope to tackle.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Art Emotion Hope Magic Mood
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale.
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Destruction Planets Scales
How does anybody ever think of anything?
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Anything Nobody Thinking
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
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.
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Artists Criminal Weaknesses
The screen is a magic medium.
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Magic Mediums Screen
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
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
Everybody has their black moments.
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Black Everybody Moments
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.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Individuality Monsters Perfect
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
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
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
You sit at the board and suddenly your heart leaps. Your hand trembles to pick up the piece and move it. But what chess teaches you is that you must sit there calmly and think about whether it’s really a good idea and whether there are other, better ideas.
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Heart Learning Moving
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.
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Practice Punishment Violence

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