it has always seemed to me that really artistic, truthful ambiguity - if we can use such a paradoxical phrase- is the most perfect form of expression, for a number of reasons. one: nobody likes to be told anything; nobody likes to be told the truth of what’s happening. and, perhaps even more important than that, nobody kows what is true or what is happening. i think that a really perfect ambiguity is something which means several things, all of which might be true, and which, at the same time, move the audience, emotionally, in the general direction you want them to be moving. so, i think that, conversely, the literal, plain, clear statemet is, in its own way, a false statement and never has the power that a perfect ambiguity might.
stanley kubrick
