Duel....he's a small screen guy and should have stayed there.
Doesn't know how to paint a picture with a wide lens.
He's no David Lean, certainly.
Most people aren't. Anyway Lean was a pictorialist with no overridding themes. See 'Empire of the Sun' which was a tribute to Lean. Anyway SS has one of the most astonishing visual imaginations in movie history so I don't know where you get that. You can take his movies to a film school to teach directorial technique. Very few scenes in his movies are routinely directed. Look at the D Day scene from SPR. As a picture of Hell on Earth that's equal to Guernica.