A 50 minute documentary, Stanley Kubrick's Boxes is on Google Video. It's utterly fascinating. Kubrick never threw anything away. His house is filled with thousands boxes of various research and memos and letters.
He never took vacations or even understood what they were about. He immediately recovered from interruptions and got back to work, within a second. He obsessed over every minute detail. He hired a photographer to take photos of London as research for Eyes Wide Shut. A photographer spent a year and took an estimated 30,000 photos and Stanley Kubrick anxiously looked at every single one of them. He read all the fan mail, noted if it was positive or negative or a crank and filed it by the city of the writer and the film.
At one point he designed his own boxes. And got them manufactured.
The boxes are now archived at the University of the Arts London.
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