Did you deliberately try for ambiguity as opposed to a specific meaning for any scene or image?

Stanley Kubrick:  No, I didn’t have to try for ambiguity; it was inevitable… But it’s the ambiguity of all art, of a fine piece of music or a painting – you don’t need written instructions by the composer or painter accompanying such works to “explain” them. “Explaining” them contributes nothing but a superficial “cultural” value which has no value except for critics and teachers who have to earn a living.  Reactions to art are always different because they are always deeply personal...

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