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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

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
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
Anybody who runs is a VC. Anybody who stands still is a well-disciplined VC.
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Running War Wells
The very meaninglessness of life forces man to create his own meaning.
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Creative Force Men
I love editing. I think I like it more than any other phase of film making. If I wanted to be frivolous, I might say that everything that precedes editing is merely a way of producing film to edit.
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Editing Phases Thinking
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
I’m not afraid of dying tomorrow, only of being killed.
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Dying Fear Tomorrow
It’s a mistake to confuse pity with love.
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Confuse Mistake Pity
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
I’m just an old man and I smell bad, remember?
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Men Rejection Smell
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.
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Art Causes Life
I never learned anything at all in school and didn’t read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
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Book School Years
All my life I’ve always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
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Destruction Spoiled
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
Take a stress pill and think things over– HAL in 2001
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Pills Stress Thinking
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 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.

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