Kubrick

The American genius filmmaker who started out his career as a photographer in New York and continued
his movie making as an expatriate in London. He used lenses from Zeiss made for NASA to
capture natural candlelight scenes in Barry Lyndon (1975), the story of an Irish Adventurer and William Makepeace Thackeray's novel.
Beautifully made...and perhaps inspired by Napolean Bonaparte, although there are accounts that Thackeray made it
as a twisted version of his own life story.
Some quotes from the movie:
“And by these wonderful circumstances I was once more free again: and I kept my resolution then made, never to fall more into the hands of any recruiter, and henceforth and for ever to be a gentleman.”
“Let the man who has to make his fortune in life remember this maxim. Attacking is his only secret. Dare, and the world always yields: or, if it beat you sometimes, dare again, and it will succumb.”