May 22, 1972
I have always wondered if there might be a more meaningful way to present a book about a film. To make, as it were, a complete, graphic representation of the film, cut by cut, with the dialogue printed in the proper place in relation to the cuts, so that within the limits of still-photographs and words, an accurate (and I hope interesting) record of a film might be available to anyone who had a bit more curiosity than just knowing what happened in the last reel. This book represents that attempt. If there are inaccuracies then they have escaped the endless checking and re-cheking of myself and my assistants, Andros Epaminondas and Margaret Adams.

Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange
Ballantine Books, 1972
Reprinted for ScreenPress, 2000