Any list of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th Century would have Stanley Kubrick at on VERY near the very top. Among American directors, once you get past John Ford, Billy Wilder, and Martin Scorsese (and okay, maybe Spielberg and Welles and I'm sure I'm overlooking some deserving directors); and internationally - Kurosawa, Godard, Bergman, Fellini, among many others, who can claim "authorship" of a resume of films including Paths of Glory, Dr. Strangelove, 2001 (I consider 2001 to be the greatest movie ever made), A Clockwork Orange, and Barry Lyndon?
So I have always been interested in what Kubrick has to say, and individually, most of these interviews are well worth reading. However, they certainly have a sameness about them, and I attribute this to the interviewers asking many of the same questions as well as Kubrick's approach to filmmaking, which he fleshed out and adhered to throughout his career. When they ask him "How do you go about selecting material?" or "You have said that the editing process is the part of filmmaking that is most unique to cinema. Why is that?" Well, he's going to give the same answers every time, because as I said he at a young age and at a young point in his directorial career considered and found visionary yet practical approaches to EVERY - and I do mean EVERY - aspect of making movies. Still it is fascinating to read these glimpses into the mind of a master artist.