In Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, Jack Nicholson recalls that Kubrick said The Shining is an overall optimistic story because "anything that says there's anything after death is ultimately an optimistic story."
U dokumentarcu Stanley Kubrick: A Life in Pictures, Jack Nicholson se prisjetio da je Kubrick rekao kako je Isijavanje u biti optimistična priča jer "svaka priča koja kaže da postoji nešto nakon smrti je u biti optimistična."