Arena (TV Series)

Making 'The Shining' (1980)

Gert Kubrick: Self

Quotes 

• Stanley's Mom : And why is the script in multi-coloured pages? Anything?

  Stanley Kubrick : Each time we make a new version, at first you get very methodical - each time you make a new version, you put a different colour in. After a while, you're lucky if people get copies of the changes.

  Jack Nicholson : It's so that you start with white, then you go to blue, then pink, then green, then yellow.

  Stanley's Mom : But I just wondered...

  Stanley Kubrick : But what happens is...

  Jack Nicholson : It's so that when everybody's got their script out, you can look right over and know if they've got the latest version. But of course...

  Stanley Kubrick : ...that never happens.

  Jack Nicholson : They never have the latest version.

  Stanley's Mom : So, a blue or a yellow... isn't significant?

  Stanley Kubrick : No.

  Stanley's Mom : It's just colours.

  Jack Nicholson : I quit using my script. I just take the ones they type up each day.

  Stanley's Mom : Aren't you exaggerating a little bit?

  Jack Nicholson , Stanley Kubrick : Nope.