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TS: I understand that you cut and edit your own pictures. Don't you feel there are experienced editors who could do this?

SK: I feel that the director -- or the filmmaker, as I prefer to think of him -- is wholly responsible for the film in its completed form. Making a film starts with the germ of an idea, continues through script, rehearsing, shooting, cutting music projection, and tax accountants. The old-fashioned major-studio concept of a director made him just another color on the producer's palette, which also contained all the above "colors." Formerly, it was the producer who dipped into all the colors and blended the "masterpiece." I don't think it so surprising that it should now fall to the director.

Did success spoil Stanley Kubrick? See answer below.

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TS: Do you think that a young director with new ideas can get ahead in Hollywood -- making films the way he wants to -- without creating enemies?

SK: I don't think you make enemies by doing films the way you want to do them; I think you make enemies by being rude, tactless, and nasty to people.

TS: You have won unreserved critical praise for a least three of your pictures. At 33, you have already directed one of the biggest pictures ever made. Will success spoil Stanley Kubrick?

SK: Fifth Amendment.