Kubrick's Boxes

An insight­ful doc­u­men­tary, Stan­ley Kubrick’s Boxes was on TV today. It evoked mem­o­ries of see­ing his archive exhib­ited at ACMI many moons ago. This funny snip­pet demon­strates his inquis­i­tive­ness and atten­tion to per­fec­tion, which explains the qual­ity or essences in his work. I par­tic­u­larly love the begin­ning of his debate about break time. It ends with the last record of him before his death, which was an accep­tance speech for the DGA Award. His artic­u­la­tion on per­sonal sat­is­fac­tion and prob­lem solv­ing, “For­get the wax and feath­ers, and do a bet­ter job on the wings”, is genius.


Stan­ley Kubric’s accep­tance speech for the DGA D.W. Grif­fith Life­time Achieve­ment Award

Forget the wax and feathers, and do a better job on the wings

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