When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

I met Claxton on the set of The Cincinnati Kid.

I like to work at night.

There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.

An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.

Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.