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

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.

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.

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.

The technology of the time dictated the way things looked.

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.