‘I think then that Stanley actually told Vivian NOT to cut any of her documentary until the movie was finished because it was going to be part of the promotion for the main movie and would contain many clips. Vivian’s original final cut worked extremely well, but unfortunately Stanley was not entirely happy with it - he always saw the main purpose of the documentary as a way of promoting The Shining, so he had us take out two nice scenes of him directing so that he could have us put in two more clips from The Shining. Vivian was very upset, but Stanley’s views of course prevailed, as always! The final cut, in the sense of what scenes of Stanley were in and what were out, was his.’

‘There’s something inherently wrong with the human personality. There’s an evil side to it. One of the things that horror stories can do is to show us the archetypes of the unconscious: we can see the dark side without having to confront it directly.’