Kubrick. An Odyssey

1.'A relatively normal life'
2.'From oddball to intriguing misfit' 1928-1945
3.'Stan Kubrick, Photo, 1414 Shakespeare Ave., NYC'
1945-1949
4.'As if we were doing War and Peace' 1949-1951
5.'A bumbling amateur film exercise' 1951-1953
6.'Baby, nobody's going to get anything out of this
movie but me' 1953-1955
7.'The gangster and the artist' 1955-1956
8.'He provides a very necessary threat' 1956
9.'Stanley, I don't think this picture will ever make a
nickel, but we have to make it' 1957-1958
10.'Stanley Hubris' 1958-1959
11.'Now I can make a story that I have a crush on'
1959-1961
12.'Intrigued by the threat of nuclear war' 1961-1962
13.'I'm a bit more of a science-fiction addict than you
might have suspected' 1963-1964
14.'Science fiction? You've got to be kidding' 1964-1965
15.'Mr Cool' 1965-1968
16.'Americans don't like films where people write with
feathers' 1968-1970
17.'A terrible man. Just shocking' 1970-1972
18.'Tm not a Franz Kafka, sitting alone and suffering'
1972-1974
19. 'He is never far wrong about anything'1974-1975
20. 'I've always liked fairy tales and myths' 1976-1977
21.'He was an artist, with the inner life of one,
dreaming about his work' 1977-1978
22.'How can we do it better than it's ever been done
before?' 1978-1980
23.'Anxiously awaiting getting an idea' 1980-1982
24.'A terse spitball of a book, fine and real and
terrifying' 1982-1984
25.'As daunting and inscrutable as a monolith' 1984-
1987
26.'I might just tinker with it a little . . .' 1988-1991
27.'Routines of evasive deception' 1991-1993
28.'His creative process and mine were not sufficiently
aligned' 1994-1995
29.'Didn't he wind up ... in some place with a very bad
climate?' 1995-1996
30.'It's my best film ever' 1996-1999
31.'The guy who was my pal' March-December' 1999
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