Hal Quotes

I guess professionally it began when Hal Hartley used some music of mine in his film The Unbelievable Truth.

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

So, it's cool that, yes, Hal Jordan is a superhero, but my character is a real-world hero in her own life.

I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbing. There were so many tempo changes. I could never get through the opening number without any mistakes. One day, I went up to Hal Prince and offered to leave the show. He laughed it off. He said, "Don't be silly. That's why we have tryouts."

Not only that, but when I first met Joe, to my intense delight, he showed me that he was a collector. He was collecting some of the early Tarzan pages by Hal Foster, and, later, early Flash Gordons; and I found that we were both absolutely interested in the same type of thing.

My first job on 2001 was to make all of the HAL readouts: the 16 screens that surround HAL's eyes.