Errol Morris Documentary Film on Stephen Hawking

I had been reading "A Brief History of Time" when the documentary of the same titled was screened at school.  The overlap of information was interesting.  Many of the things Hawkings said in the film were quoted straight from the book.  I really wanted to see the documentary to unravel some of the mystery of who Stephen Hawkings is.  The book is somehow sterile in its manner of writing, giving facts and information but not much emphasis on Hawkings viewpoints of the importance and meanings of these discoveries.  He explains what the discoveries might mean to the rest of the world, like religion and the possibility of proof a lack of a grand scheme or creator.  But Hawkings doesn't ever devulge what that particularly means to him.  With a human of that intelligence, I was extremely interested in his personal views and his emotional side.  Could it possibly be that he is solely a man of science and is not truly upset about his physical predicament, or that he has no opinion of the meaning of the proof of no creator.  It would vastly change the structure of many societies.  The documentary left me with more questions than it answered.  The part where his mother was speaking about how Hawkings only dedicated himself to the quest of knowledge after he got sick, and that if it hadn't been for this sickness (that effects few people) then these questions in science would still be unanswered, stinks so strangely of divine intervention that its sickening.