Frederic Raphael, who co-wrote the
Eyes Wide Shut screenplay with Kubrick, claimed that the filmmaker once allegedly remarked that A.H. [Adolf Hitler] had been "right about almost everything". Raphael, initially unsure how to respond, ultimately decided it was "an unassuming jest". Kubrick's relationship to his own ethnicity allegedly deeply troubled Raphael, a fellow Jew. Raphael was equally puzzled by Kubrick's critique of
Schindler's List. After Raphael mentioned
Schindler’s List during a discussion about films about the Holocaust, Kubrick apparently replied: “Think that was about the Holocaust? That was about success, wasn't it? The Holocaust is about six million people who get killed. 'Schindler's List’ was about six hundred people who don't."
[4] Kubrick's friend
Steven Spielberg, the director of the film, disbelievingly responded that he "didn't recognize the voice of Stanley" in Raphael's interviews.
[5] Christiane Kubrick, Kubrick's wife of more than four decades, has also stated that Frederic Raphael's memoir "Eyes Wide Open", where these allegations were made, is an unreliable biography of Kubrick