[928uk] interesting fact about Stanley Kubrick

[Croeser, Gareth]

Exerpt from an interview...


It amazes me that you're a pro-football fan.
Why ?.
It doesn't fit my image of you.
Which is....
Stanley Kubrick is a perfectionist. He is consumed by mindless anxiety over
every aspect of every film he makes. Kubrick is a hermit, an expatriate, a
neurotic who is terrified of automobiles and who won't let his chauffeur
drive more than thirty miles an hour.
Part of my problem is that I cannot dispel the myths that have somehow
accumulated over the years. Somebody writes something, it's completed
off-the-wall, but it gets filed and repeated until everyone believes it. For
instance, I've read that I wear a football helmet in the car.


You won't let your driver go more than thirty miles an hour, and you wear a
football helmet, just in case.
In fact, I don't have a chauffeur. I drive a Porsche 928 S, and I sometimes
drive it at eighty or ninety miles an hour on the motorway.


Your film editor says you still work on your old films. Isn't that neurotic
perfectionism ?.
I'll tell you what he means. We discovered that the studio had lost the
picture negative of Dr. Strangelove. And they also lost the magnetic master
soundtrack. All the printing negatives were badly ripped dupes. the search
went on for a year and a half. Finally, I had to try to reconstruct the
picture from two.... 


 



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