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A little past the midpoint of Matthew Modine’s extraordinarily entertaining audiobook   Full Metal Jacket Diary , the actor takes a break from shooting Stanley Kubrick’s Vietnam War film to audition for another project, Alan J. Pakula’s   Orphans . Practically the second Modine walks into the room, Pakula asks excitedly, “What’s he like?” “He,” of course, is Kubrick, one of the greatest and most enigmatic directors in the history of movies, and it’s a testament to his legend that even other famous directors like Pakula were and are starving for information about his process. That goes double for a not-so-famous director like myself; ever since I became obsessed with Kubrick at the age of nine, I’ve eagerly consumed every scrap of behind-the-scenes documentation that I could find on his productions. Not that there’s been a whole lot — aside from sporadic technical articles in magazines like   American Cinematographer   and occasional interviews in major magazines like...