Personal life of Stanley Kubrick was very much a family man." Similarly, Nicole Kidman, who starred in "Eyes Wide Shut" (1999), adds that Christiane "was the love of his life. He would talk about her, he adored her, something that people didn't know. His daughters adored them ... I would see that, and he would talk about them very proudly." The opinion was shared by Malcolm McDowell, who starred in "A Clockwork Orange": "He was happily married. I remember his daughters, Vivian and Anya, running around the room. It was good to see such a close-knit family." Kubrick moved to the United Kingdom to make
Stanley Kubrick tones and don't have to be pounded over the head with plot points and suspense tools." Kubrick was notorious for demanding multiple takes during filming to perfect his art, and his relentless approach was often extremely demanding for his actors. Jack Nicholson remarked that Kubrick would often demand up to fifty takes of a scene. Nicole Kidman explains that the large number of takes he often required stopped actors from consciously thinking about technique, thereby helping them enter a "deeper place". Kubrick's high take ratio was considered by some critics as "irrational", although he firmly believed that actors were at