Gee, I Wish We Had One Of

The Screen Is A Magic Medium. It Has Such Power That It Can Retain Interest As It Conveys Emotions And Moods That No Other Art Form Can Hope To Tackle.

I Will Say That The God Concept Is At The Heart Of 2001 But Not Any Traditional, Anthromorphic Image Of God. I Don't Believe In Any Of Earth's Monotheistic Religions, But I Do Believe That One Can Construct An Intriguing Scientific Definition Of God, Once You Accept The Fact That There Are Approximately 100 Billion Stars In Our Galaxy Alone, That Each Star Is A Life-giving Sun And That There Are Approximately 100 Billion Galaxies In Just The Visible Universe.

If Man Merely Sat Back And Thought About His Impending Termination, And His Terrifying Insignificance And Aloneness In The Cosmos, He Would Surely Go Mad, Or Succumb To A Numbing Sense Of Futility. Why, He Might Ask Himself, Should He Bother To Write A Great Symphony, Or Strive To Make A Living, Or Even To Love Another, When He Is No More Than A Momentary Microbe On A Dust Mote Whirling Through The Unimaginable Immensity Of Space?

I Never Learned Anything At All In School And Didn't Read A Book For Pleasure Until I Was 19 Years Old.

The Whole Idea Of God Is Absurd. If Anything, '2001' Shows That What Some People Call 'god' Is Simply An Acceptable Term For Their Ignorance. What They Don't Understand, They Call 'god' -stanley Kubrick, Interview, 1963