'He [Kubrick] explained: "I'm distrustful of delegating authority and my distrust is usually well-founded. I especially don't trust people who don't write things down. With those who do write things down, I'm very interested in what they write things in. If it's one of those chic Fifth Avenue notebooks with those expensive gold pencils I'm more suspicious than ever. Many people feel it's beneath their dignity to take notes, and try instead to trust their memories.'
[John Baxter, Stanley Kubrick: A Biography (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1997).]