Stanley Kubrick

"The most important parts of a film are the mysterious parts - beyond the reach of reason and
language."
Kubrick is an American motion-picture director and writer whose films are characterized by his
dramatic visual style. One of Kubrick’s most significant traits was his obsessive, meticulous
perfectionism. He would shoot takes hundreds of times, spend years on single projects, travel
across the world in order to reshoot or re-record just one sound. His favorite part of filmmaking
was editing, and he would spend days locked up in the editing suite to get everything just right.
This obsession also led to his distinctive use of symmetry and color in film.
Photography
Kubrick worked as a photographer for magazine Look immediately after his graduation, which
inexpressibly influenced his work in the future.
His work was different to other photojournalists; he would shoot several frames, very much
akin to how a filmmaker does, in order to get the best shot, and would pack his images with
narrative and meaning.
Quality over quantity
Although his career extended over nearly half a century, Kubrick made only 13 feature films.
Nevertheless, he is remembered as a master filmmaker and supreme visual stylist. Arguably, he
is even more admired by other filmmakers than he is by critics.
Иy his death, he didn’t finish 5 of his own projects, of which he had already spent several years
of development like for example movie “Napoleon” on which he spent 2 years on just writing
and developing. Besides there are also numerous projects in which he either advised colleagues
or was a director, which he also left unfinished.
The Shinning
Kubrick was well-known for being quite demanding on his sets and asking his actors to perform
dozens of takes before moving onto another shot. For some actors, he went too far. 
The "axe scene" was filmed sixty times because Jack Nicholson was breaking the door too fast.
(because he worked as fireman previously)
It took a year to film the scene with the elevator and blood. (even though it was filmed in just 3
shots, it took at least 9 days to clean up everything)
According to IMDB, the scene where Jack chases his son Danny through the hedges took a
month to shoot, partly because crew members kept getting lost and had to use their walkie-talkies
for help.
Duvall
Kubrick commanded the crowd not to show any sympathy for Duvall and asked them to ignore
her completely. (which had an impact on her psychologic health)
Duvall’s role was extremely tiresome as she would have to run around, carrying Lloyd, crying
and screaming for 35 takes because Kubrick wanted every scene to be a perfection.
The "baseball scene" had taken 127 legendary takes, the highest number of takes in any film
according to the Guinness Book of World records. (And every take Duvall was screaming and
crying after what Duvall ended up with a hoarse throat, raw wounded hands and severe
dehydration. )
Duvall started losing hair and was “in and out of health” during filming.
“Eyes Wide Shut”
The record for longest constant film shoot, according to Guinness World Records - production
took place over 15 months.
In order to create a real semblance of jealousy between the main characters, played by the then
married Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman, Kubrick tried to isolate them on the set and also didn't
allow them to share details after filming.
Kubrick banned Cruise from the set on the days that Kidman shot the scene with a male model.
They spent six days filming the one-minute scene. 
Kubrick had Cruise do 95 takes of one simple action: walking through a doorway
2 years later, Kidman and Cruise divorced, it’s impossible to say for sure that this happened due
to long and exhausting filming, but they definitely left an imprint on both of them.