The Kubrick Site: Kubrick speaks in regard to 'Barry Lyndon'

Relationship scenes are not about clever premises; they’re about the friction between people behaving honestly. They de-emphasize the what. They are born not from words or clever initiations but from simple emotional reactions.

in life idea and emotion come separately.

The scene is not about what the scene seems to be about. It’s about something else.

As the scene stands in the movie, it conveys everything the audience needs to know about the characters and then some. Part of it emerges in dialogue, just as much (if not more) emerges from the staging of the scene and organic interaction amongst everyone involved. And we’re not even 15 minutes into the movie.

During the shooting of a non-fiction film, don’t show footage to anyone you have been filming with because they often become self-conscious and complain about how they look. My response to these requests is simple: I tell them I might throw the entire thing out or use just 10 per cent of what we recorded, so it would only be confusing and disappoin

George stated it quite simply. One sets a scene, but not in order to show off the architecture every time. That can happen when filmmakers are given the design of a science-fiction setting; they often feel they have to show the audience, just because it’s there and different, and so it introduces an unreality.