- The individual brave enough to venture into this troublesome field must be no matter what the size of the audience, an organizer, promoter, publicist, and copyrighter, businessman, public speaker, and artist. A conscientious if not pedantic person versed in mass psychology, he must have roots in his community. And he must know a good film when he sees it.
- Films were always selected from the point of view of how they would collide with each other in the minds of the audience.
- The commercialization of art and entertainment is a negative factor in human development.
- [letter to Stanley Kubrick, 1968]: "2001" is one of the few films that catches, in a very understated way, the ominous irony of present-day trends toward an inhuman society, as well as the metaphysical mystery of the universe, which is as clear to thoughtful atheists as it is to truly religious people. I'm afraid that neither one of these two aspects of your film was grasped by so many of the critics.
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