Stanley Kubrick’s Interview with The New Yorker

http://www.openculture.com/2012/06/rare_1960s_audio_stanley_kubricks_interview_with_ithe_new_yorkeri.html

by J3L2404 • 14 years ago

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stephth• 14 years ago

Has anyone found a link to the actual audio file? I'm traveling and would like to listen to this.

infinite_snoop• 14 years ago

http://sliated.com/kubrick_archive/kubrick_1966.mp3

sicher• 14 years ago

Mp3 is on this page: http://www.sliated.com/kubrick.htm

luriel• 14 years ago

More interviews with Kubrick:

http://genius.cat-v.org/stanley-kubrick/interviews/

baby• 14 years ago

Playboy: If life is so purposeless, do you feel its worth living?

Kubrick: Yes, for those who manage somehow to cope with our mortality. The very meaninglessness of life forces a man to create his own meaning. Children, of course, begin life with an untarnished sense of wonder, a capacity to experience total joy at something as simple as the greenness of a leaf; but as they grow older, the awareness of death and decay begins to impinge on their consciousness and subtly erode their joie de vivre (a keen enjoyment of living), their idealism - and their assumption of immortality.

As a child matures, he sees death and pain everywhere about him, and begins to lose faith in the ultimate goodness of man. But if he’s reasonably strong - and lucky - he can emerge from this twilight of the soul into a rebirth of life’s élan (enthusiastic and assured vigour and liveliness).

Both because of and in spite of his awareness of the meaninglessness of life, he can forge a fresh sense of purpose and affirmation. He may not recapture the same pure sense of wonder he was born with, but he can shape something far more enduring and sustaining.

The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent; but if we can come to terms with this indifference and accept the challenges of life within the boundaries of death - however mutable man may be able to make them - our existence as a species can have genuine meaning and fulfilment. However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light. — Stanley Kubrick in interview for Playboy

bocmaxima• 14 years ago

His insights about problem solving and logical thinking are well worth a listen.

mynameishere• 14 years ago

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8QCuxNsMyw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lUZ6yzv2SB0

Quick insight into the guy, along with how he interacted with different actors on set.

Stanley Kubrick’s Interview with The New Yorker

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