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

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.

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.

Perception is more important than reality. If someone perceives something to be true, it is more important than if it is in fact true.

Life is a bag full of uncertainties for everyone.

I came from a dysfunctional family - very dysfunctional. And my father used to find great humor in throwing me down the stairs.

They (#ISIS) are going to be bombing American cities coming across from Mexico.

Social justice rests on the hate towards those that enjoy a comfortable position, namely, upon envy.

Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line.

All social life is essentially practical. All mysterious which lead theory to mysticism find their rational solution in human practice and in the comprehension of the practice.

Reality is for people who can't face drugs.

I wasn't born a world champion. I just worked really hard to become one.

Heed not the night; A summer lodge amid the wild is mine, 'Tis shadowed by the tulip-tree, 'Tis mantled by the vine.