About his work Kubrick is the most self-conscious and rational of men. His eccentricities – secretiveness, a great need for privacy – are caused by his intense awareness of time’s relentless passage. He wants to use time to “create a string of masterpieces,” as an acquaintance puts it. Social status means nothing to him, money is simply a tool of his trade.
—Richard Schickel, 1975
(Via.)
