10 Bizarre Filmmaker Rules You Never Knew
8. Stanley Kubrick Edited His Movies With An Army Of Cats
In addition to being one of the greatest filmmakers of all time, Stanley Kubrick was also unquestionably one of the most eccentric.
An infamous perfectionist, he'd routinely put actors through dozens of takes - and occasionally more than 100 - to basically beat the artifice out of them, insisted on shooting all of his movies in England to be free from Hollywood meddling, and reportedly never even watched his own movies once they were completed.
But perhaps the strangest of the director's professional rituals involved allowing his many cats into the editing room to lay around while he cut his movies.
A noted feline lover, Kubrick at one point owned as many as 16 cats, and in order to compensate for the time spent away from them while shooting, he'd routinely let them into the editing room, allowing him to enjoy quality time with his pets while also getting work done.