The Dead Know Only One

There Are Few Things More Fundamentally Encouraging And Stimulating Than Seeing Someone Else Die.

Everything Has Already Been Done. Every Story Has Been Told Every Scene Has Been Shot. It’s Our Job To Do It One Better.

I Will Say That The God Concept Is At The Heart Of 2001 But Not Any Traditional, Anthromorphic Image Of God. I Don't Believe In Any Of Earth's Monotheistic Religions, But I Do Believe That One Can Construct An Intriguing Scientific Definition Of God, Once You Accept The Fact That There Are Approximately 100 Billion Stars In Our Galaxy Alone, That Each Star Is A Life-giving Sun And That There Are Approximately 100 Billion Galaxies In Just The Visible Universe.

In His Essay On The Uncanny, Das Unheimliche, Freud Said That The Uncanny Is The Only Feeling Which Is More Powerfully Experienced In Art Than In Life. If The Horror Genre Required Any Justification, I Should Think This Alone Would Serve As Its Credentials.

Some People Demand A Five-line Capsule Summary. Something You'd Read In A Magazine. They Want You To Say, 'this Is The Story Of The Duality Of Man And The Duplicity Of Governments.' I Hear People Try To Do It -- Give The Five-line Summary -- But If A Film Has Any Substance Or Subtlety, Whatever You Say Is Never Complete, It's Usually Wrong, And It's Necessarily Simplistic: Truth Is Too Multifaceted To Be Contained In A Five-line Summary. If The Work Is Good, What You Say About It Is Usually Irrelevant.