Ten Famous Filmmakers Who Never Went to Film School 2 - Stanley Kubrick Wise beyond his years and with an aptitude for intellectual hobbies like chess, Stanley Kubrick felt unchallenged as a young student. After receiving a camera on his 13th birthday, his passion for learning was stirred, and he began to teach himself photography and the basics of filmmaking. The Space Odyssey director discussed his self-taught start in Hollywood in a 1969 interview: “After I quit Look in 1950 — where I had been a staff photographer for five years, ever since I left high school — I took a crack at films and made two documentaries, Day of the Fight, about prize fighter Walter Cartier, and The Flying Padre, a silly thing about a priest in the Southwest who flew to his isolated parishes in a small airplane. I did all the work on those two films, and all the work on my first two feature films, Fear and Desire and Killer’s Kiss. I was cameraman, director, editor, assistant editor, sound effects man — you name it, I did it. And it was invaluable experience, because being forced to do everything myself I gained a sound and comprehensive grasp of all the technical aspects of filmmaking.”
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