"If anyone understands it on the first viewing, we've failed in our intention."
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Stanley Kubrick, interview by Eric Norden, Playboy (September 1968). Reprinted in: Gene D. Phillips (Editor), Stanley Kubrick: Interviews, University Press of Mississippi, 2001, , pp. 47–48, and on Paulnahm.blogspot
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