Steven Spielberg

The film gets released and then I go somewhere.

And it's been really therapeutic and it's good.

And I know if something's not going well, of course.

I know when something's – I didn't before the internet.

It was harder to find out before the internet.

You had to have somebody call you and, you know, the person that calls you and says your film's a bomb is not a person you're going to want to have dinner with the next week.

But now if your film is a huge success or is a middling success or isn't a success at all, it gets you.

It just osmosis through the current social state of the art that we're all enveloped in.

But I still can get away, and so I don't have to stress out.

Something else really helped that movie catch on.

The marketing department at MGM, and I want to give Stanley credit for this, but I don't think Stanley actually came up with this slogan, but the marketing department at MGM put on all the posters and all the billboards, 2001, A Space Odyssey, The Ultimate Trip, and appealed to the psychedelic generation.

I asked him that question, and he actually said he doesn't think the movie is a drug trip movie, and he sort of is— I'm not saying he's in denial of that because I don't really know if that's the reason it eventually did so well and people saw it.

I think drugs notwithstanding, the film itself is a drug.

You don't need to smoke marijuana to get off on 2001 The Space Odyssey.

And like me, who's never taken drugs, I went to that movie and that was a drug.

And to this day, it continues to be something that every year I need a little bit of a 2001 fix in me.

Of course, that was Carol Reed's first Oscar.

It's one of my favorite musicals ever, though.

Is it?

It's one of my favorite musicals.