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when it first came out

and saw it probably two times.

I can say that I remembered

the skier poster.

That is one thing

that really stuck with me.

And the window.

The window in the office,

that's another thing

that really stuck with me.

I remember, you know,

in the newspapers afterwards,

people being disappointed.

And I remember people

that I knew,

yes, in dialogue afterwards,

being disappointed that it was

not more a horror film.

Well, no Kubrick film's

really just a regular movie.

I understood that from,

well, when I was 10 years old

and I first saw 2001.

I walked away.

I thought, "This is a film

that's supposed

to make me think."

- I had my first

religious experience

seeing the film

2001:
A Space Odyssey in 1968.

I was a smart kid

and liked art,

but I really

did not like movies

and thought that they

were really a substandard art.

And, you know, films like

My Fair Lady

and Doctor Dolittle were out.

And it was a rather pathetic

time in the '60s for films.

And my girlfriend,

she pulled up

and told me that she'd

seen a movie the night before

and she wanted to see it again.

So she took me to the theater,

the Cinerama Dome,

and I watched it.

And I had never in my life

envisioned that a movie

could do what this movie

was doing.

And it was showing me things

that I had never seen,

and it was

intellectually challenging.

And it was an artistic

masterpiece in every way,

from the soundtrack to

the visuals to the story line.

And when the movie ended,

I couldn't get out of my seat.

I was frozen in the seat,

completely paralyzed

by what I'd just witnessed.

And the usher actually

had to come and get me out.

And I was the last person,

me and her.

And I staggered

out of the theater

completely changed

as a human being

and decided at that moment

that the only thing

that I wanted to do

for the rest of my life

was to make films

in one fashion or another.

And so I have done that.

So I owe Stanley Kubrick and

his film 2001:
A Space Odyssey

everything for everything that

I have become in my life, so...

- I saw a number

of Kubrick films

before I had

an academic interest in him.

And then I went to see

The Shining in 1980.

And frankly,

I didn't think that much of it.

I thought the other

Kubrick films that I'd seen

were far superior.

But as I thought

about the film afterwards...

and even when

I wasn't thinking about it...

there were things

that bothered me about it.

It seemed

as if I had missed something.

And so I went back

to see it again.

And I began to see

patterns and details

that I hadn't noticed before.

And so I kept watching the film

again and again and again.

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