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“I haven't come across any recent new ideas in film that strike me as being particularly important and that have to do with form. I think that a preoccupation with originality of form is more or less a fruitless thing. A truly original person with a truly original mind will not be able to function in the old form and will simply do something different. Others had much better think of the form as being some sort of classical tradition and try to work within it.”

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Stanley Kubrick

Stanley Kubrick was an American film director known for his profound understanding of the art of cinema and innovative style. His works are characterized by complex narrative structures, exquisite cinematography, and profound thematic explorations. Kubrick's films spanned a variety of genres, from war films to science fiction and psychological thrillers, each leaving a lasting impression. more

“Some people demand a five-line capsule summary. Something you'd read in a magazine. They want you to say, 'This is the story of the duality of man and the duplicity of governments.' I hear people try to do it -- give the five-line summary -- but if a film has any substance or subtlety, whatever you say is never complete, it's usually wrong, and it's necessarily simplistic: truth is too multifaceted to be contained in a five-line summary. If the work is good, what you say about it is usually irrelevant.”

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“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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