Editing Eyes Wide Shut (section)

===Kubrick's opinion===
[[Jan Harlan]], Kubrick's brother-in-law and executive producer, reported that Kubrick was "very happy" with the film and considered it to be his "greatest contribution to the art of cinema".<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dvdtalk.com/janharlaninterview.html |title=On Kubrick – A Talk With Kubrick Documentarian Jan Harlan |website=DVD Talk |access-date=August 22, 2014 |archive-date=November 9, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141109010216/http://www.dvdtalk.com/janharlaninterview.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|url=http://timessquare.com/Film/Film_Interviews/Jan_Harlan_Keeps_His_Eyes_Wide_Open_On_New_Ideas/ |title=Jan Harlan Keeps His Eyes Wide Open On New Ideas &#124; Times Square New York City |website=Timessquare.com |date=November 7, 2007 |access-date=July 2, 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120226124101/http://timessquare.com/Film/Film_Interviews/Jan_Harlan_Keeps_His_Eyes_Wide_Open_On_New_Ideas/ |archive-date=February 26, 2012}}</ref>

[[R. Lee Ermey]], an actor in Kubrick's film ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'', stated that Kubrick phoned him two weeks before his death to express his despondency over ''Eyes Wide Shut''. "He told me it was a piece of shit", Ermey said in ''Radar'' magazine, "and that he was disgusted with it and that the critics were going to 'have him for lunch'. He said Cruise and Kidman had their way with him – exactly the words he used."<ref>{{cite web|url=http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2010/03/kubrick-says-cruise-kidman-ruined-eyes-wide-shut|title=''Kubrick says Cruise and Kidman ruined EWS''|date=March 2, 2010 |website=FilmDrunk |publisher=Uproxx|access-date=April 8, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100419035751/http://filmdrunk.uproxx.com/2010/03/kubrick-says-cruise-kidman-ruined-eyes-wide-shut|archive-date=April 19, 2010|url-status=dead}}</ref>

According to [[Todd Field]], Kubrick's friend and an actor in ''Eyes Wide Shut'', Ermey's claims do not accurately reflect Kubrick's essential attitude. Field's response appeared in an October 18, 2006, interview with Grouch Reviews:

<blockquote>The polite thing would be to say 'No comment'. But the truth is that&nbsp; ... let's put it this way, you've never seen two actors more completely subservient and prostrate themselves at the feet of a director. Stanley was absolutely thrilled with the film. He was still working on the film when he died. And he probably died because he finally relaxed. It was one of the happiest weekends of his life, right before he died, after he had shown the first cut to Terry, Tom and Nicole. He would have kept working on it, like he did on all of his films. But I know that from people around him personally, my partner who was his assistant for thirty years. And I thought about [[R. Lee Ermey]] for ''[[In the Bedroom]]''. And I talked to Stanley a lot about that film, and all I can say is Stanley was adamant that I shouldn't work with him for all kinds of reasons that I won't get into because there is no reason to do that to anyone, even if they are saying slanderous things that I know are completely untrue.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/187|title=Todd Field – Little Children|date=October 18, 2006|website=grouchoreviews.com|access-date=August 10, 2018|archive-date=August 10, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180810205522/http://grouchoreviews.com/interviews/187|url-status=live}}</ref></blockquote>