. >> both of you had interaction with arthur c. clark who wrote the novel in 2001, correct?ow did that go for you? >> well, he was on the set, early on in the shooing schedule, i don't remember him toward the end of the shooting schedule so much, because he had been working with stanley for a couple years, anyway, so -- and it was more, he was a lovely man. a gentle man, but we didn't have a lot of dialogue to do with the, with the actual shooting or the character. he didn't really -- he left that up to stanley. >> i had a couple of good moments with arthur. well, you know, we opened, we premiered in washington, d.c. and got our reviews. we came to new york and got terrible reviews. so arthur's sitting next to me and said, i said, what did you think, arthur? i think he saw the first time in new york that night, and he said, i'm completely amazed how incredible the movie was. he said, i had no idea that a movie would, my god, stanley -- i said, arthur, i've been a fan of stanley's since i was 15, 16 years old. i said, there's nobody like him in the planet. i mean, he was the

nobody knows, but arthur c. clarke has made an estimation, and he said it this way. behind every human being stands 30 ghosts, that 1/30 of all human race from way back is walking the earth today. that number's changing quickly. let's say one trillionth, so that means there were 30 more people on the earth from time zero than there are now. now there's about 4 billion. and there's 30 times that number for the total number of people that ever lived. 3 x 4 is 12, call this 100, that's like 10 to the 11, 10 to the 11 is 100 billion. so 100 billion pple in the world. but the number of atoms in your lungs, 10 to the 22, what's that, billion, billion... 10,000 billion, billion atoms in your lungs. many, many, many more atoms in your lungs than people that ever lived, so you can rest assured that inside your lungs or inside your body at any moment are atoms from every human being who ever lived. you know how the buddhists say things like we are all one. we are all one. what do the physic-ers think about statements like that? the hardcore physic-ers, what do they say? it's t