The best education in film is to make one

Like the man said, can happiness buy money?

No philosophy based on an incorrect view of the nature of man is likely to produce social good.

The dead know only one thing, it is better to be alive

There's something in the human personality which resents things that are clear, and conversely, something which is attracted to puzzles, enigmas, and allegories.

You're free to speculate as you wish about the philosophical and allegorical meaning of the film—and such speculation is one indication that it has succeeded in gripping the audience at a deep level—but I don't want to spell out a verbal road map for 2001 that every viewer will feel obligated to pursue or else fear he's missed the point.

I haven't had one sexual thought since the court martial.