But as far as the concept of HAL, who HAL was, his character - I had no role in creating him.

I visited a scientist who had a helmet with magnetic fields controlled by computer sequences that could profoundly affect your mood and your perceptions.

My particular aesthetic of light and color and design wouldn't change as a result of working with computer graphics rather than with slit scan or miniatures.

There's a consistency in my work that pops up independent of the limitations of the technology.

Clearly, if wed had the kind of computer graphics capability then that we have now, the Star Gate sequence would be much more complex than flat planes of light and color.

We're not that far from being able to plant images, memories, and emotional states directly into the brain.

When I worked on 2001 - which was my first feature film - I was deeply and permanently affected by the notion that a movie could be like a first-person experience.

I honestly believe that the next big leap in immersive technology will be very much like Brainstorm.

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

My heart is a blooming rose of self-love.

Love was supposed to be the easiest path to divinity

Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so enjoy your day.

It requires a direct dispensation from Heaven to become a walker.

There's something called the physiology of forgiveness. Being unable to forgive other people's faults is harmful to one's health.

Should we distrust the man because his manners are not our manners, and that his skin is dark?

Ain't nothing coming easily in this life. Sometimes you gotta work, you gotta grow and it gotta hurt.

A Christian is never in a state of completion but always in a process of becoming.

We know evolution happened because innumerable bits of data from myriad fields of science conjoin to paint a rich portrait of life's pilgrimage.

You don't create your mission in life - you detect it.