“I don't like doing interviews. There is always the problem of being misquoted or, what's even worse, of being quoted exactly.”

—  Stanley Kubrick

"Kubrick on Barry Lyndon : An interview with Michel Ciment" (1982) http://www.visual-memory.co.uk/amk/doc/interview.bl.html

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