"It’s no good just saying to Kubrick such and such will or won’t work. You’ve got to prove it to him to his satisfaction and that means you’ve got to have all your arguments lined up very logically and precisely. Not that he doesn’t leave you alone to get on with it — he delegates power but only on the noncreative side of the film and even then he checks and double checks. The creative side is entirely in his hands. He even designs his own posters. A most stimulating man to work with. The mind of a crack chess player — which he is."

Victor Lyndon, Associate Producer of 2001: A Space Odyssey, when asked about working with Stanley Kubrick. From a 1963 interview by Elaine Dundy for The Queen Magazine. Source: Stanley Kubrick: Interviews edited by Gene D. Phillips (pg. 11)