Trivia

Director Billy Wilder: “That’s one of my favorite pictures, Dr. Strangelove. I was bewildered.”
--Source: Conversations with Wilder, Page 24

Stanley turned down directing a sequel to The Exorcist but decided to direct his own horror film: The Shining.

Kubrick received death threats after the release of Clockwork orange targeting himself and his family. He removed the film from circulation in Britain, with the result that the film was not shown again in Britain until its re-release in 2000, after his death.

Kubrick’s screenplay for an epic film, Napoleon (written in the early 70s), was published on the Internet in 2000, and later withdrawn by the executors of the Kubrick estate.

In 1991 Spartacus reappeared in movie theaters, newly edited to restore many scenes that had been cut from the 1960 version because of graphic violence and sex.

In the year 2001, director Steven Spielberg finished A.I. (based on the short story Supertoys Last All Summer Long by Brian Aldiss), the film that had been Kubrick’s final vision. The movie is dedicated to Kubrick’s memory.

Actor Kirk Douglas on Kubrick: “A talented shit” (They made Paths of Glory and Spartacus together).
--Source: The Ragman’s Son, Page 305

Kubrick disliked his early film Fear and Desire very much, so he bought all the prints of it so no one else could see it.

Stanley told a friend of his (R. Lee Ermey, the actor who played the drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket (1987)) that Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were wrecking his movie Eyes Wide Shut. Ermey: “ He told me it was a piece of shit and that he was disgusted with it and that the critics were going to have him for lunch.”.

The blacklisted writer Dalton Trumbo had made the script for Spartacus (1960). Producer Kirk Douglas tried to figure out how to credit him with the finished film. Kubrick said: “Put my name on the screen as writer.” Douglas was shocked: “Stanley, I asked, wouldn`t you feel funny taking credit for a script you had nothing to do with?” Kubrick: “Not at all, I`m only trying to help you out.”;
--Source: Let's Face It: 90 Years of Living, Loving, and Learning, Page 79

The Legion of Decency (the censor) called Lolita (1962) a sick symbol to be banished from the nation`s screens to be accomplished if possible with dignity.
--Source: The Cross and the Cinema, Page 146