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Sweating the small things

The Guardian has this article on Stanley Kubrick and his protectiveness of his films, his love of typefaces, and just how detail-oriented he was…

“OK,” I say. “I understand how you might do this [meticulous research] for Napoleon, but what about, say, The Shining?”

“Somewhere here,” says Tony, “is just about every ghost book ever written, and there’ll be a box containing photographs of the exteriors of maybe every mountain hotel in the world.”

It’s not OCD when it makes you rich and famous.

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