Kubrick never explained the ending to us, or what his intentions were. He didn't intend for it to be a predictable film.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
As an actor, I think a mistake that any storyteller can make is to play the ending.
When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.
It's a tough job to tell a story when the audience already knows the ending, and the ending is bleak.
The thing is, even though you think a lot about your movie, and there's a lot of preparation behind it, the final end result completely goes beyond it. It's not something you're aware of.
I just don't know that a TV show demands a movie ending.
I think all of the directors I've worked with are mostly curious about the time I had on 'Eyes Wide Shut.' They really just want to know about it. They're all fans of Kubrick.
It's often the case with directors that they don't like to share credit, which is the case of Stanley. He would prefer just A Film By Stanley Kubrick including music and everything.
The ending is really the most important part of the movie. If the first hour and 20 minutes is terrific and the last ten minutes stinks, everybody walks out of the theatre and says: 'That was a lousy movie!'
To me, the series was the end of the actor, when the series ended.
I hate when a movie just sort of ends and is so open-ended you feel like it wasn't finished. I appreciate leaving things up to the interpretation of the audience and letting them make decisions about where things will go in the future - but the director has to make a decision; otherwise it is sort of a cop-out.