This was his very first movie, wasn't it?
Yes, his only prior credits were in teleivision.
Everyone in that film had hugely quotable lines, even him.
Thanks largely to Peter George's work on the screenplay, preserving his most lovable characters and the best dialogue from the book. My favorite line is still, "You can't fight in here! This is the War Room!" That sort of in-your-face irony peppers the novel.
When something doesn't work in the lab, sometimes I'll say
Uh..sorry, sir...negative function...
Funny you mention that -- it's exactly how our conversation started. I was doing a microphone check for our hired-out sound engineer and I said, "Sorry sir, still ... negative function..." and then I looked over to where he was getting wired for his body mic. He shot back that characteristic toothy grin from ear to ear and said, "Young man, you're way too young to know that reference." And I said, "On the contrary, I'm a big fan of Stanley Kubrick." And it went from there.
Let me just say it's really creepy to hear Darth Vader say your name.
Did he say, "Jay, I hoaxed the Apollo missions. "
Obviously not, and this was actually right as I was starting to pay attention to the hoax theories. I wish I'd known then that this would be such a big deal for me because I'd have had a chance to talk with someone who worked with Kubrick. As I said, Tony Frewin (Kubrick's personal assistant for much of his career) has been a wealth of information as well as a genuinely nice guy to talk to.