The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

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.

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

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

What I emphasize is for people to make choices based not on fear but on what really gives them a sense of fulfillment.

I think there's a vague sense out there that movies are becoming more and more unreal. I know I've felt it.

Folks are really tired of this rabid division between Republicans and Democrats. Folks want people to come together and solve the problems and the challenges of America.

On the way here this guy steps up to us and says, 'Would you like to join Jehovah's Witnesses?' and Rocky (Graziano) says 'I didn't see nuttin!'

The news anchor is exactly that - an anchor, a center, a focus.

All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.

Conservatism is not a political ideology, it is a severe form of brain damage for which there's hardly any cure.

A pitcher needs two pitches, one they're looking for and one to cross them up.