In an interview with Michel Ciment, Kubrick explained: However good our best film composers may be, they are not a Beethoven, a Mozart or a Brahms.
在與米契爾·西蒙的訪談中，库布里克解釋：「無論我們的影片配樂者做的多好，他們不是貝多芬、莫札特、或布拉姆斯。