Steven Spielberg

You can get the same feeling every single time you watch 2001, The Space Odyssey.

Stanley created that.

And when you think about some of his concepts, they found a monolith buried on the moon and had been buried there for 4 million years.

Right away, that makes us all feel like a greater intelligence before we ever had evolved into...

you know, a race of homo sapiens, had already been here once and possibly had seeded the planet with the life that we claim is generated from whatever your belief system is.

And so 2001, even if you've seen it 50 times, the movie can still, I think, shock you.

Well, it does seem like... Do I sound like an ad to get people to see 2001?

Yeah.

Yeah, I'm not a big fan of...

the next 2010 movie they made.

Because I really wanted it to be left in my imagination when the star child turns and looks at the planet Earth.

I wanted to leave it at that.

I just wanted to be able to have that image exist without any possible film follow-up.

I think it's mundane.

For me, that's mundane because...

It's a mundane thing to start to explain and start to throw out other plot lines.

Because in the abstract, when the star child turns and those eyes are moving in the puppet's head and almost looks at the audience...

You know, it's just a moment that sort of Stanley is saying we need to start looking within ourselves.

You know, we can always be looking to the stars and ambition and exploration is great, but aren't we missing us?

Shouldn't we start, all of us, looking more inward?