:50:02
...by your dependence on people
to carry out actions?
:50:06
Not in the slightest bit.
:50:08
I enjoy working with people.
:50:10
I have a stimulating relationship
with Dr. Poole and Dr. Bowman.
:50:15
My mission responsibilities range over
the entire operation of the ship...
:50:19
...so I am constantly occupied.
:50:22
I am putting myself
to the fullest possible use...
:50:26
... which is all, I think, that any
conscious entity can ever hope to do.
:50:30
Unlike many
a science fiction writer. . .
:50:33
. . .including, I must say, myself. . .
:50:35
. . .he regarded
the future as unknowable.
:50:38
This is the first movie, the first work
of science fiction that actually. . .
:50:43
. . .I think, depicts the future
as unknowable.
:50:47
Eighteen months ago...
:50:50
... the first evidence
of intelligent life off the Earth...
:50:55
... was discovered.
:50:58
It was buried 40 feet
below the lunar surface...
:51:02
...near the crater Tycho.
:51:06
Except for a single, very powerful...
:51:10
...radio emission aimed at Jupiter...
:51:14
... the four-million-year-old monolith
has remained completely inert...
:51:21
...its origin and purpose...
:51:24
...still a total mystery.
:51:27
I respect in awe...
:51:30
I'm in awe of the mystery
of the universe.
:51:31
Something which Einstein's often said:
:51:34
"Anyone who isn't awed by the universe,
they haven't any soul. "
:51:39
So from my earliest days the wonder
of space and time has intrigued me. . .
:51:45
. . .and Stanley and I tried to put some
of this feeling into the film.
:51:50
I think it made people realize
that we were. . .
:51:53
. . .a rather small part
of an enormous universe.
:51:57
It's hard to realize
when we made that film. . .
:51:59
. . .we didn't know what Earth looked
like from space from any distance.