Stanley Kubrick’s mark on the legacy of cinema can never be measured. He was a giant in his field, his great works resembling pristine pieces of art, studied by students and masters alike, all searching for answers their maker was notoriously reticent to give. While he’s among the most scrutinized filmmakers that ever lived, the chance to hear Kubrick’s own words was a rarity—until now. Through Michel Ciment, film critic internationally known for being expert on Stanley Kubrick, and our advisor for this film, we have access to a series of rare interviews that occurred during their 30 years of relationship. Mediawan

Kubrick also didn’t particularly like discussing the themes and deeper meanings embedded within his work. “One of the things I always find extremely difficult, when a picture’s finished, is when a writer or a film reviewer asks, ‘Now, what is it that you were trying to say in that picture?’” he said in a 1960 interview. “And without being thought too presumptuous for using this analogy, I like to remember what T. S. Eliot said to someone who had asked him — I believe it was The Waste Land — what he meant by the poem. He replied, ‘I meant what I said.’ If I could have said it any differently, I would have.” — Ben Pearson