Stanley Kubrick

[Narration] Nearly all of his films contain a narration at some point (2001 - Odyssee im Weltraum (1968)) contains narration in the screenplay, as does the screenplay for Eyes Wide Shut (1999), and Shining (1980) has some sparse title cards.
Adapted every film he made from a novel, excluding his first two films: Der Tiger von New York (1955) and Furcht und Begierde (1952) (both from original source material), and 2001 - Odyssee im Weltraum (1968).
His films often tell about the dark side of human nature, especially dehumanization.
[Symmetry] Symmetric image composition. Often features shots down the length of tall, parallel walls, e.g. the head in Full Metal Jacket (1987), the maze and hotel coridors in Shining (1980) and the computer room in 2001 - Odyssee im Weltraum (1968).
[Three-way] Constructs three-way conflicts

Had an extensive and rich friendship with Malcolm McDowell during the filming of Uhrwerk Orange (1971). After filming ended, Kubrick never contacted him again.
People would come to his door looking for him, and as few people knew what he looked like, he would tell them that "Stanley Kubrick wasn't home."
He joined with directors Martin Scorsese, Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola, Steven Spielberg, Robert Redford, Sydney Pollack and George Lucas in forming the Film Foundation (promotes restoration and preservation of film - May 1990).
He was considered to be a well-read man with an extreme attention to detail. For his aborted film project on Napoléon Bonaparte, he had one of his assistants go to various bookstores to acquire every book he could find on the French emperor, and he returned with well in excess of 100. Kubrick read them all and astonished his associates with his level of retention. When working on a battlefield scene, he even examined an historical painting of the battle so he could note exactly what the weather was in the painting and make sure to film the battle on a day with similar weather patterns.
At the age of 16, he snapped a photograph of a news vendor in New York the day after President Franklin D. Roosevelt died. He sold the photograph to Look magazine, which printed it. The magazine eventually hired him as an apprentice photographer while he was still in high school.

I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.
A film is--or should be--more like music than like fiction. It should be a progression of moods and feelings. The theme, what's behind the emotion, the meaning, all that comes later.
I would not think of quarreling with your interpretation nor offering any other, as I have found it always the best policy to allow the film to speak for itself.
Anyone who has ever been privileged to direct a film also knows that, although it can be like trying to write "War and Peace" in a bumper car in an amusement park, when you finally get it right, there are not many joys in life that can equal the feeling.
Art consists of reshaping life but it does not create life, nor cause life.