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"Design in art, is a recognition of the relation between various things, various elements in the creative flux. You can't invent a design. You recognize it, in the fourth dimension. That is, with your blood and your bones, as well as with your eyes."

"Many things difficult to design prove easy to performance."

"Graphic designers judge a cover by its book."

"Good design begins with honesty, asks tough questions, comes from collaboration and from trusting your intuition."
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"Clearly, if we'd 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."

"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."

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

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

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

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

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

"It was the point where things became much more abstract and less literal than in the bulk of the film, which was hardcore rockets and space and planets - all a fairly straightforward evolution from what I had been doing before."

"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."
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