Category: Introversion

Stanley Kubrick: gifted and shy

Stanley Kubrick: overwhelmed by his actors
Kubrick [left] was considered one of the most innovative and influential filmmakers, renowned for a legendary perfectionism.
But one of his most intense actors, R. Lee Ermey, the menacing drill instructor in Full Metal Jacket (1987), recently said, “Stanley called me about two weeks before he died [in 1999]. We had [...]

Exceptional abilities – Isaac Newton: obsessed and solitary

He was an unusual sort, obsessive, but gripped by the power and the beauty of sheer computation. I think that was a driving force behind what he did.
Once Newton (1642-1727) was onto something, he was gripped by it and he worked at it and worked at it and worked at it until he could solve [...]