‘I don’t know how many times they shot the blood in the elevator. Somebody told me they had been shooting that ever since the shoot first started the year before. They shot it three times while I was there. About every ten days they would shoot it again and Stanley would say, ‘It doesn’t look like blood’ and they would say, ‘Well, is it the texture? Is it the color?’ It would take them like nine days to set the shot up and then they would come back, the door would open, it would come out and Stanley would say, ‘It doesn’t look like blood.’ But finally they got it.’
Actor Tony Burton, who played auto mechanic Larry Durkin in The Shining, quoted in Vincent LoBrutto’s book, Stanley Kubrick: A Biography.
