Kubrick On Kubrick

It has often been suggested that Kubrick was a recluse, and there is indeed some truth in this description of him. Like other famous recluses (such as Greta Garbo, Thomas Pynchon, and JD Salinger), Kubrick avoided public appearances and photographers, and spent most of his time at home. However, Kubrick was certainly not an isolated, eccentric megalomaniac (such as Howard Hughes or Michael Jackson), despite persistent rumours to the contrary.

This, the first truly comprehensive list of Kubrick's interviews, demonstrates the surprising frequency with which he actually spoke to journalists. Kubrick also published some of his screenplays, issued press-releases, and wrote several published articles and letters; these activities are all listed here. Kubrick: The Last Interview, by Adrian Rigelsford and Kim Meffen (TV Times, 4/9/1999), is not included in this list, as it is now known to be a hoax.

Kubrick's Interviews And Writings

Interviews With Kubrick

• Snap Hundreds Says 'Boy Genius' (1946)
  [Arthur Juntunen, Detroit Free Press]
• Camera Quiz Kid: Stan Kubrick (10/1948)
  [Mildred Stagg, The Camera]
• Young Man With Ideas And A Camera (14/1/1951)
  [Thomas M Pryor, The New York Times]
• By Way Of Report (29/6/1952)
  [AH Weiler, The New York Times]
• (26/10/1952)
  [The Kentucky Courier-Journal]
• Kubrick Another Boy Film Producer (27/3/1953)
  [Irene Thirer, New York Post]
• Sultry New Siren And New All-Around Movie Wizard Spark Fear And Desire (8/4/1953)
  [People Today]
• Of Pictures And People (23/5/1954)
  [AH Weiler, The New York Times]
• (1957)
  [Gilles Jacob]
• (1957)
  [Alexander Walker]
• Bonjour Monsieur Kubrick (7/1957)
  [Raymond Haine, Cahiers Du Cinema #13.73]
• Twenty-Nine And Running: The Director With Hollywood By The Horns Dissects The Movies (2/12/1957)
  [Simon Bourgin, Newsweek #50.23]
• Conversation With Stanley Kubrick (Spring 1958)
  [Jay Varela, El Playano]
• Lolita Bought By Screen Team (13/9/1958)
  [Oscar Godbout, The New York Times]
• Very Funny Relationship (29/9/1958)
  [Time #72.13]
• The Changing Face Of Hollywood (12/1958)
  [Joseph Laitin, CBS]
• Film Fan To Film-Maker (12/10/1958)
  [Joanne Stang, The New York Times, Magazine]
• Hollywood 'Rome' (22/3/1959)
  [Thomas M Pryor, The New York Times]
• The Hollywood War Of Independence (Spring 1959)
  [Colin Young, Film Quarterly #12.3]
• No Art And No Box Office (7/1959)
  [Dwight MacDonald, Encounter #13.1]
• California Movie Morals: Hollywood Bypasses The Production Code (29/9/1959)
  [Jack Hamilton, Look #23.20]
• Mr Disney And Mr Kubrick (12/1960)
  [The Insider's Newsletter]
• (1960)
  [Bob Thomas, Associated Press]
• The Artist Speaks For Himself: Stanley Kubrick (1960; unpublished)
  [Robert Emmett Ginna, The Odyssey Begins, Entertainment Weekly #480 (9/4/1999)]
  [Robert Emmett Ginna, A Film Odyssey, The Guardian, Friday Review (16/7/1999)]
• Teenager Will Play Lolita: She's Sue Lyon Of TV Show (27/9/1960)
  [Louella O Parsons, Los Angeles Examiner]
• Schoolgirl Gets Lead In Lolita (28/9/1960)
  [Eugene Archer, The New York Times]
• $12million Risk Taken By Douglas (29/9/1960)
  [Philip K Scheuer, Los Angeles Times]
• Hailed In Farewell: Spartacus Gets Praise Of Pleased Director (2/10/1960)
  [Eugene Archer, The New York Times]
• Nymphet Found (10/10/1960)
  [Time #76.15]
• Stanley Kubrick... Thirty-Two-Year-Old Director Of A $12,000,000 Movie (22/11/1960)
  [Look #24.24]
• Interview With Kubrick (12/1960)
  [Charles Reynolds, Popular Photography #47.6]
• Oriental Invasion On - But Peacefully (13/12/1960)
  [Philip K Scheuer, Los Angeles Times]
• 'Ban Lolita' Rumpus Before The Film Is Shown (1961)
  [Daily Express]
• 'Ban This Dangerous Film Lolita' (13/5/1961)
  [Robert Hill, Daily Sketch]
• Vine St Looms As New Theater Row (9/1/1962)
  [Dick Williams, Los Angeles Times]
• MGM To Release Lolita In Spring (14/2/1962)
  [Eugene Archer, The New York Times]
• An Interview With Stanley Kubrick Director Of Lolita (7/1962; unpublished)
  [Terry Southern, An Interview With Stanley Kubrick, The Stanley Kubrick Archives (2005)]
• The East: Kubrick's And Sellers' New Film (6/5/1962)
  [AH Weiler, The New York Times]
• How To Make A Film That Can't Be Made (25/5/1962)
  [Peter Bunzel, Life #52.21]
• Meet Sue: Here's Our Lolita (6/1962)
  [Rose Pelswick, New York Journal-American]
• Really The Real Lolita? (10/6/1962)
  [Joe Morgenstern, The Sunday New York Herald Tribune]
• Sue Lyon: Star Of The Year's Most Controversial Movie - Lolita (17/7/1962)
  [Jack Hamilton, Look #26.15
• (1963)
  [Jack Piler, Variety]
• (1963)
  [David Lewin, Daily Express]
• Kubrick's Sellers Takes Four Parts (7/3/1963)
  [Philip K Scheuer, Los Angeles Times]
• Stanley Kubrick And Dr Strangelove (13/3/1963)
  [Elaine Dundy, Queen]
• 'Nerve Center' For A Nuclear Nightmare (21/4/1963)
  [Leon Minoff, The New York Times]
• Kubrick Ci Parla Del Suo Film Su Un Generale Demente Che Scatena La Guerra Atomica (29/4/1963)
  [Giorgio Fanti, Paese Sera]
• Kubrick Explains 'Movie Of Absurd' (2/5/1963)
  [Philip K Scheuer, Los Angeles Times]
• A Bombastic Bit Of Irony Is Ready To Be Let Loose (9/6/1963)
  [Flora Lewis, The Washington Post]
• Atomic Bomb Spoof - Grin And Bear It (16/6/1963)
  [Gerard Fay, Los Angeles Times]
• The Ubiquitous Multifarious Sellers (23/6/1963)
  [Flora Lewis, The New York Times]
• Anthony Quinn Having Ball In Paris (23/8/1963)
  [Dorothy Kilgallen, The Washington Post]
• The Bomb And Stanley Kubrick (11/1963)
  [Lyn Tornabene, Cosmopolitan]
• untitled interview (1964)
  [Joseph Heller, A Conversation, The Stanley Kubrick Archives (2005)]
• (12/1963)
  [Cahiers Du Cinema #150/151]
• Sex And Dr Strangelove (1964)
  [Anthony F Mackin, Film Comment #3.3]
• How To Learn To Love World Destruction (26/1/1964)
  [Eugene Archer, The New York Times]
• The Astonishing Stanley Kubrick (2/1964)
  [Peter Lyon, Holiday #35.2]
• Direct Hit (3/2/1964)
  [Newsweek #63.5]
• What Makes Kubrick Laugh? It's The Bomb (9/2/1964)
  [Don Alpert, Los Angeles Times]
• The Strange Case Of Strangelove (13/3/1964)
  [Loudon Wainright, Life #56.11]
• Ten Questions To Nine Directors: Stanley Kubrick (Spring 1964)
  [Sight And Sound #33.2]
• (1965)
  [The Sunday Times, Magazine]
• (1965)
  [Herald Tribune]
• Strangelove First Planned As Serious Film (21/1/1965)
  [Los Angeles Times]
• Beyond The Blue Horizon (21/2/1965)
  [AH Weiler, The New York Times]
• Beyond The Stars (24/4/1965)
  [Jeremy Bernstein, The New Yorker #41]
• Is It Strangelove? Is It Buck Rogers? Is It The Future?: Offbeat Director In Outer Space (16/1/1966)
  [Hollis Alpert, The New York Times, Magazine]
• 2001: An Informal Diary Of An Infernal Machine (7/1966)
  [Clancy Sigal, Town]
• Kubrick Farther Out (12/9/1966)
  [Henry T Simmons, Newsweek #58.11]
• How About A Little Game? (12/11/1966)
  [Jeremy Bernstein, The New Yorker #42]
• untitled interview (27/11/1966)
  [Jeremy Bernstein, Interview With Stanley Kubrick, The Stanley Kubrick Archives (2005)]
• (1/4/1968)
  [Loew's Capitol, New York]
• The Territorial Imperative Of Stanley Kubrick (Spring 1968)
  [Books]
• In 2001 Will Love Be A Seven-Letter Word? (14/4/1968)
  [William Kloman, The New York Times, Section Two]
• Kazan Kubrick And Keaton (28/4/1968)
  [AH Weiler, The New York Times]
• 2001 And Hair - Are They The Groove Of The Future? (12/5/1968)
  [William Kloman, The New York Times]
• Filming 2001: A Space Odyssey (6/1968)
  [Herb A Lightman, American Cinematographer]
• Front-Projection For 2001: A Space Odyssey (6/1968)
  [Herb A Lightman, American Cinematographer]
• Kubrick Talks About 2001 (4/6/1968)
  [Joseph Gelmis, Newsday]
• An Interview With Stanley Kubrick (1970)
  [Joseph Gelmis, The Film Director As Superstar]
• Stanley Kubrick Raps (8/1968)
  [Charlie Kohler, The East Village Eye]
• Playboy Interview: Stanley Kubrick (9/1968)
  [Eric Norden, Playboy #15.9]
• Le Second Berceau De La Vie (23/9/1968)
  [Yvette Romi, Le Nouvel Observateur]
• Entretien Avec Stanley Kubrick (12/1968-1/1969)
  [Renaud Walter, Positif #100-101]
• A Talk With Stanley Kubrick About 2001 (1/1969)
  [Maurice Rapf, Action #4.1]
• Kubrick Watches Bronfman's Flight (18/8/1969)
  [Joyce Haber, Los Angeles Times]
• The Making Of Kubrick's 2001 (1970)
  [Jerome Agel]
• (1971)
  [Victor Davis, Daily Express]
• Stanley Kubrick Directs (1971)
  [Alexander Walker]
• 2001 (Winter 1970; Spring 1971)
  [Max Kosloff, Film Culture #48; Max Kosloff, Film Culture #49]
• Mind's Eye: A Clockwork Orange (5/1971)
  [John Hofsess, Take One #3.5]
• A Feast And About Time (20/12/1971)
  [Judith Crist, New York]
• Kubrick: Degrees Of Madness (20/12/1971)
  [Jay Cocks, Time #98.25]
• Kubrick Country (25/12/1971)
  [Penelope Houston, Saturday Review #54.52]
• Kubrick (Winter 1971)
  [Gene D Phillips, Film Comment #7.4]
• Kubrick's Brilliant Vision (3/1/1972)
  [Paul D Zimmerman, Newsweek #79.1]
• Kubrick Tells What Makes Clockwork Orange Tick (4/1/1972)
  [Bernard Weinraub, The New York Times]
• A Clockwork Utopia: Semi-Scrutable Stanley Kubrick Discusses His New Film (20/1/1972)
  [Andrew Bailey, Rolling Stone #100]
• Nice Boy From The Bronx? (30/1/1972)
  [Craig McGregor, The New York Times, Section Two]
• Kubrick's Creative Concern (13/2/1972)
  [Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune]
• Kubrick: "Chacun De Nous Tue Et Viole" (17/4/1972)
  [Michel Ciment, L'Express]
  [English version: Michel Ciment, First Interview: A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick (1982)]
• Interview With Stanley Kubrick (Spring 1972)
  [Philip Strick and Penelope Houston, Sight And Sound #41.2
• A Propos De Orange Mechanique (6/1972)
  Michel Ciment, Positif #139]
  [English version: Michel Ciment, First Interview: A Clockwork Orange, Kubrick (1982)]
• Interview With Stanley Kubrick (8/1972)
  [H Faltysova, Film A Doba #18.8]
• Stop The World: Stanley Kubrick (1973)
  [Gene D Phillips, The Movie Makers: Artists In An Industry]
• Stanley Kubrick: A Film Odyssey (1975)
  [Gene D Phillips]
• Kubrick's Grandest Gamble: Barry Lyndon (15/12/1975)
  [Richard Schickel, Time #106.24]
• Kubrick A L'Express: "Je Suis Un Detective De L'Histoire" (30/8/1976)
  [Michel Ciment, L'Express]
  [English version: Michel Ciment, Second Interview: Barry Lyndon, Kubrick (1982)]
• How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Barry Lyndon (11/1/1976)
  [John Hofsess, The New York Times]
• Filmen Ist Detektivarbeit (13/9/1976)
  [Der Spiegel #38]
• Superman: Leaping Tall Budgets (6/4/1978)
  [Roderick Mann, Los Angeles Times]
• (23/5/1980)
  [Alexander Walker, Los Angeles Herald-Examiner]
• Stanley Kubrick's Horror Show (26/5/1980)
  [Jack Kroll, Newsweek #95.21]
• Kubrick: Critics Be Damned (28/5/1980)
  [John Hofsess, Soho News]
• Shining And Empire Set Records (28/5/1980)
  [Aljean Harmetz, The New York Times]
• Kubrick: "Tous Les Fous N'Ont Pas L'Air D'Etre Fous" (20/10/1980)
  [Robert Benayoun, Le Point #422]
• Une Rencontre Avec Stanley Kubrick (23/10/1980)
  [Patricia Moraz, Le Monde]
• Stanley Kubrick Strikes Back With The Shining (25/10/1980)
  [John Hofsess, International Herald Tribune]
• Oui Il Y A Des Revenants (25/10/1980)
  [Michel Ciment, L'Express]
  [English version: Michel Ciment, Third Interview: The Shining, Kubrick (1982)]
• Gansehaut Der Luxusklasse (11/1980)
  [Wolf Kohl, Cinema (Germany)]
• (20/12/1980)
  [Vicente Molina Foix, El Pais #2.59]
  [English version: Vicente Molina Foix, An Interview With Stanley Kubrick, The Stanley Kubrick Archives (2005)]
• Peter Sellers: The Authorized Biography (1981)
  [Alexander Walker]
• Cinque Film Contro Rambo[Romano Giacchetti, La Repubblica]
• (1987)
  [Francoise Maupin, Le Figaro]
• Es Ist Ein Gluck Das Der Krieg So Furchterlich Ist (10/1987)
  [Maria Harlan, Cinema (Germany)]
• Stanley Kubrick's War Realities (21/6/1987)
  [Alexander Walker, Los Angeles Times]
• Stanley Kubrick's Vietnam (21/6/1987)
  [Francis X Clines, The New York Times]
• Candidly Kubrick (21/6/1987)
  [Gene Siskel, Chicago Tribune]
• I'm Always Surprised By The Reactions To My Films (26/6/1987)
  [Jay Scott, The Toronto Globe And Mail]
• Stanley Kubrick At A Distance: The Director Does Vietnam His Way - In London (28/6/1987)
  [Lloyd Grove, The Washington Post]
• 1968: Kubrick's Vietnam Odyssey (29/6/1987)
  [Jack Kroll, Newsweek #109.26]
• Kubrick Disputes Label Of Eccentric Recluse (10/7/1987)
  [Donna Rosenthal, Houston Chronicle]
• The Rolling Stone Interview: Stanley Kubrick (27/8/1987)
  [Tim Cahill, Rolling Stone]
• Heavy Metal: Full Metal Jacket Or How Stanley Kubrick's Marines Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Vietnam (9/1987)
  [Penelope Gilliatt, American Film #12.10]
• Kubrick's War (17/10/1987)
  [Gordon Campbell, New Zealand Listener]
• Un Entretien Avec Le Realisteur De Full Metal Jacket: Le Vietnam De Stanley Kubrick (20/10/1987)
  [Daniele Heymann, Le Monde]
• Kubrick Enfin! (10/1987)
  [Michele Halberstadt, Premiere #127]
• "Sind Sie Ein Misanthrop Mr Kubrick?": Gesprach Mit Dem Full Metal Jacket Regisseur (5/10/1987)
  [Hellmuth Karasek, Der Spiegel #41]
• Kubrick Ubers Filmemachen (21/11/1987)
  [Florian Hopf, Frankfurter Rundschau]
• Ich Wurde Liebend Gern Mehr Filme Machen (29/7/1993)
  [Josef Schneider, Die Weltwoche]
• L'Entrevue (1994)
  [Jean-Marc Bouineau, Le Petit Livre De Stanley Kubrick]

Articles By Kubrick

• Director's Notes (4/12/1960)
  [Stanley Kubrick, The Observer]
• Words And Movies (Winter 1960)
  [Stanley Kubrick, Sight And Sound]
• Why Sue (Lolita) Lyon Was Guarded As If Actress Was An Atomic Bomb (1962)
  [Stanley Kubrick, Lolita pressbook]
• How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Cinema (6/1963)
  [Stanley Kubrick and Robin Bean, Films And Filming #9.9]
• The Directors Choose The Best Films (8/1963)
  [Stanley Kubrick et al., Cinema (USA) #1]
• Why They'll Never Ban The Bomb (1/1964)
  [Stanley Kubrick, Show Time]
• Foreword (1968)
  [Stanley Kubrick and Arthur C Clarke, 2001: A Space Odyssey novel]
• Notes On Special Effects For 2001: A Space Odyssey (9/1/1969)
  [Stanley Kubrick, Academy of Motion-Picture Arts and Sciences]
• Introduction (1972)
  [Stanley Kubrick, A Clockwork Orange screenplay]
• Kubrick Sur Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  [Michel Ciment and Stanley Kubrick, Kubrick]
  [English version: Michel Ciment and Stanley Kubrick, Kubrick On Full Metal Jacket, Kubrick: The Definitive Edition (2001)]
• Introduction (1991)
  [Stanley Kubrick, Decalogue: The Ten Commandments screenplay]

Press-Releases

• (1961)
  [re: One-Eyed Jacks resignation]
• (8/1964)
  [re: Terry Southern and Dr Strangelove]
• Stanley Kubrick To Film Journey Beyond The Stars In Cinerama For MGM (23/2/1965)
  [re: 2001]
• (4/1965)
  [re: 2001]
• (6/1968)
  [re: Napoleon]
• (24/8/1972)
  [re: A Clockwork Orange]
• (1976)
  [re: Barry Lyndon]
• (1984)
  [re: Douglas Trumbell and 2001]
• (5/1984)
  [re: Full Metal Jacket]
• (1/1994)
  [re: Fear And Desire]
• (Summer 1996)
  [re: Eyes Wide Shut]

Published Screenplays

• A Clockwork Orange (1972)
  [Stanley Kubrick]
• The Shining (1980)
  [Stanley Kubrick and Diane Johnson]
• Full Metal Jacket (1987)
  [Stanley Kubrick, Gustav Hasford, and Michael Herr]
• Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
  [Stanley Kubrick and Frederic Raphael]

Letters To The Editor

• Le Sentiers De La Gloire: Pourquoi Avez-Vous Choisi Des Soldats Francais? (5/3/1959)
  [Stanley Kubrick, L'Express]
• Lolita And The Press (24/6/1962)
  [Stanley Kubrick, The Observer]
• Now Kubrick Fights Back (27/2/1972)
  [Stanley Kubrick, The New York Times, Section Two]
• (9/4/1972)
  [Stanley Kubrick, Detroit News]

Public Statements

• (12/2/1963)
  [Stanley Kubrick, Dorchester Hotel, London; Dr Strangelove press-conference]
• Commander-1 (1965)
  [Stanley Kubrick, dustjacket blurb]
• The Films Of Frank Capra (1977)
  [Stanley Kubrick, open letter]
• (26/1/1978)
  [Stanley Kubrick et al., Variety; petition re: United Artists]
• (26/7/1984)
  [Stanley Kubrick, James Mason tribute]
• The Killer Inside Me (1965)
  [Stanley Kubrick, reissue cover blurb]
• This Is Your Life: Arthur C Clarke (1994)
  [Stanley Kubrick, open letter]
• (17/1/1994; unpublished)
  [Stanley Kubrick, re: Dr Strangelove 30th anniversary]
• DW Griffith And His Wings Of Fortune (1997)
  [Stanley Kubrick, Directors Guild of America DW Griffith Award]
• (1997)
  [Stanley Kubrick, Mostra Internazionale d'Arte Cinematografica Leone d'Oro]

The Kubrick Estate

Following his death in 1999, Kubrick's family permitted Jon Ronson, Bernd Eichhorn, and Alison Castle to visit Childwickbury Manor and catalogue his archives. Ronson wrote an article for The Guardian's Weekend magazine (Citizen Kubrick, 27/3/2004) and made a documentary for More4 (Stanley Kubrick's Boxes, 15/7/2008), giving a brief survey of Kubrick's store-rooms. The props and documents Bernd Eichhorn discovered were shown as part of an extensive Stanley Kubrick touring exhibition beginning in 2004, and an exhibition catalogue (Kinematograph XX: Stanley Kubrick, 2004) and documentary (Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition by Katia DeVidas, 2005) were also released. Alison Castle edited The Stanley Kubrick Archives (2005), an enormous and lavish book which included a unique strip of frames from Kubrick's personal 70mm print of 2001.

Jan Harlan, Kubrick's brother-in-law, directed A Life In Pictures (2001), a feature-length documentary with extensive and rare footage of Kubrick. Christiane Kubrick, the director's widow, wrote a book also titled A Life In Pictures (2002), featuring a large selection of Kubrick photographs. In 2007, Kubrick's archives were transferred from Childwickbury (his home near St Albans) to the University of the Arts in London.