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[on shooting on film vs. digital] I definitely prefer film, and always will... If I watch a movie on film, I can watch the worst print with scratches, dirt, hairs and shit everywhere and it doesn't bother me at all. But on video, if I see a pixel pop up, I want to die. There's an organic, realistic life to film that you cannot get on DV. Not yet, anyway.

The image of those two oddball little girls from The Shining (1980) in their matching powder-blue dresses standing in a bleak, floral-wallpapered hallway has been burnt into my retina ever since the first moment I laid eyes on them. "Come play with us Danny... Forever and ever and ever..." I can still hear the chorused voices of those little Grady twins almost as well as I can recall some of my favorite songs. 'The Shining' was the first film to actually make me uncomfortable with the idea of ever watching it again. To this day I have never met a single person who when those twins are brought up doesn't shudder and share a personal terror story of their own. That is some achievement. Way to go Kubrick, you ruined us all.