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.

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.

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.

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

Feel free to scream, whisper, and everything in between. I want to hear it all.

Not that it was beautiful, but that, in the end, there was a certain sense of order there; something worth learning in that narrow diary of my mind

... There must then be a principle of such a kind that its substance is activity.

We need them. We need scientifically literate voters and taxpayers for the future.

Hurry is not of the devil; hurry is the devil.

America needs a commander in chief, not a global community organizer.

April frowned, irritation evident. “I did not consent to your presence,” she said peevishly. “Please depart, and attempt your political assassination on someone else’s property.

Politics as battle has given way to politics as spectacle.

If I wasn't going to be a world-famous journalist and if I didn't have such respect for truth and justice, I could be an amazing master criminal.

My investments have been hurt.