I always laugh when people say Kubrick was a pessimistic, dark-hearted filmmaker.

If someone were to do even just a tiny bit a research- especially if you read the University of Missisippi's Stanley Kubrick Interviews (part of the outstanding "Conversations With Filmmakers" series) you will find that Kubrick was actually a fairly simple guy who had an enormous capacity for knowledge. He had terrible grades in school (so did Einstein) & he just explored his interests to the nth degree.
He's a role model of mine, I'll tell you that.
Scorsese was right: "We are all the sons and daughters of D.W. Griffith and Stanley Kubrick"

His films just get better and better as the years go by. His wife Christiane said he wished he made more films, but as Scorsese pointed out: " those were enough".

Is this not a stellar list of films to be the mind behind?:


The Killing
Paths of Glory
Spartacus
Lolita
Dr. Strangelove
2001: A Space Odyssey
A Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
The Shining
Full Metal Jacket
Eyes Wide Shut