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

Stanley Kubrick

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?
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Happiness Men Money
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
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
I, uh, don’t think it’s quite fair to condemn a whole program because of a single slip-up, sir.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Apocalypse Program Thinking
A film is – or should be – more like music than like fiction.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Directing Directors Film Filmmaking Independent
The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.
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History Humour Political
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Book School Years
Don’t get obsessed with not liking a movie.
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Like Movie Obsessed
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
STANLEY KUBRICK

Running War Wells
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
I’m happy – at times – making films. I’m certainly unhappy not making films.
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All Film Making Time Unhappy
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
You’re an idealist, and I pity you as I would the village idiot.
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Idealist Idiots Pity Village
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
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
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

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