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

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.

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

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

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.