Stanley Kubrick, In Unearthed Video, Explains Ending Of `2001: A Space Odyssey´
(ArtsJournal)

The director always resisted giving any interpretation or explanation of the film’s final scene. But in a segment from an unaired Japanese television documentary shot in the late 1970s, Kubrick – reluctantly (“I’ve tried to avoid doing this ever since the picture came out�) – tells what he had in mind.