Stanley Kubrick Would Either Bankrupt A Studio These Days Or Would Be Shooting Digi If He Was Still Alive

“He definitely has his process. Stanley was creative as long as he thought there was some creativity flowing. I don’t know what he was thinking, but I think if he thought we were tired or he was tired or the crew were tired, he just would say, “OK, let’s do this again tomorrow.” And it could easily be 4 o’clock in the afternoon, and we could have gone for longer. It really did come down to him saying ‘Let’s continue’ or ‘Let’s stop.’ ” — On the 10th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick’s “Eyes Wide Shut,” actress Vinessa Shaw reveals it took the notoriously perfectionist director (pfft, move over Michael Mann) a month to shoot her scenes that amounted to about five minutes of screen time. The arduously long kiss she has with Tom Cruise took 69 takes (apparently a “Full Metal Jacket” record was broken).

In 2009, Kubrick would either be breaking the studio piggy bank, shooting on digital or waiting years for someone to finance one of his projects.

Also, Vinessa Shaw is kind of hot. Stanley’s parting shot career advice for Shaw which seems to have served her relatively well so far? “Don’t do any dopey films.” Amen, brother. [Movieline]