This is from a Channel 4 documentary on "2001: A Space Odyssey."

"2001" premiered in April of 1968, so I was thinking about Kubrick, this film and this month. I didn't want the month to pass without mentioning it.

I was telling a friend about a book I had been writing years ago that I've never finished about Kubrick's years in California. I drove her past the old business and home of Kubrick's uncle who had invested in some of his first films. There's just so much about Kubrick out there, yet it seems so little that we really know of him and what he's thinking. Maybe we are distracted by his dark eyes and arched eyebrows. Is he bemused? Is he thinking? Is he pulling one over on us? Is he angry? Is he bored with us?

To me he really is like some kinda Mona Lisa. I get obsessed with him. I try and figure him out. He's a puzzle, a code maker, with cyphers that I can't ever solve. When I think I do have something figured out, another mystery opens.

When I was researching my book on him, I discovered people that populated his interests and then I became obsessed with some of them, distracting me and carrying me onto other mysteries.

I become exhausted and have to leave him for awhile, but I always return.