"People pretend to think they know Stanley Kubrick, and think they know me, when most of them don't know either of us." "And what's really funny about that is, all the parts of A.I. that people assume were Stanley's were mine. And all the parts of A.I. that people accuse me of sweetening and softening and sentimentalizing were all Stanley's."
For he is a boy, a real boy. A modern version of Pinocchio, nice and warm. Though the E.T. part was the reason that brought me tears, the film would have been greater without this part.