1:53:00
And Stanley said:
1:53:01
"I think this movie is closer
to your sensibility than mine. "
1:53:06
He was so insistent. . .
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. . .he said, "When can you come out
and talk in person?"
1:53:11
I said, "When would you like?"
He said, "Tomorrow. "
1:53:14
I was on Long Island,
it was during the summer.
1:53:17
So I got on an airplane
the next day and flew to his kitchen.
1:53:21
We, for the first time, sat down
and he said:
1:53:23
"I'll show you the storyboards. "
1:53:26
And he started to show me
a plethora of work. . .
1:53:29
. . .that he had done.
1:53:31
It was a project which needed
many special effects.
1:53:34
He eventually postponed the project
for technical reasons.
1:53:38
Computer technology
was about to explode. . .
1:53:41
. . .and he figured he would benefit
enormously by waiting a few years.
1:53:46
So the next project
became Eyes Wide Shut.
1:53:49
When Eyes Wide Shut was announced
as Kubrick's next film. . .
1:53:53
. . .celebrity columnists focused
on the mysterious director. . .
1:53:56
. . .who had not made a film
or given an interview in 1 0 years.
1:54:00
They rehashed old stories. . .
1:54:02
. . .which Kubrick
had never bothered to deny.
1:54:05
He had been pegged:
1:54:07
"Reclusive filmmaker,
probably half mad. "
1:54:11
For a man to whom, I think,
control was everything. . .
1:54:15
. . .the notion that he could not,
in the last analysis. . .
1:54:18
. . .control this image that had
grown up about who he was. . .
1:54:22
. . .it must have bought him a despair,
like, "The hell with it.
1:54:27
If that's what they want to think,
I can't do anything about it. "
1:54:31
He dealt with it the way he had to.
1:54:33
I knew it was rubbish
which was all that mattered.
1:54:36
And it mostly was
all that mattered to him. . .
1:54:38
. . .but the more disgusting
things upset him.
1:54:42
He would talk about that sometimes.
1:54:44
I know until the end of
Eyes Wide Shut he'd started to say:
1:54:48
"Right, now I'm gonna do
a few proper interviews. . .
1:54:52
. . .and try and set the record
a little straighter. "
1:54:57
He didn't want
to shoot tourists on his lawn. . .
1:54:59
. . .then give them money
when they bleed.