American novelist Terry Southern about Stanley:

“No, he’s something else; probably a genius. Have you talked to him about the concerns of being a filmmaker as opposed to a mare director? That’s what he’s about. It means doing it all yourself. As a matter of fact, I was fascinated by this new thing of director as God . . . like Fellini and Bergman. It’s a new breed. In the old days of the big studious it used to be that working in films would hurt your creativity. Now – because of people like Kubrick – it is your creativity. I’m going to write a novel about this. Modelling my hero on Stanley.”

Does he know you are?
“Yeas I told him.”

What did he say?
“He said it might make a great movie.”