The director and producers agree that no discussion of STARGATE could be complete without acknowledging the vital contribution of executive producer Mario Kassar. Joel Michaels says, "Roland, Dean, the cast...we were all integral, but Mario deserves a tremendous amount of the credit. Without his conviction and indomitable will, it would never have come together. He is the one who really believed in the project and made it come to life."
"STARGATE is a great journey," Kurt Russell says, "but in the end, it is a very human story. That is to say, simply, that you can travel to the other end of the universe, but whatever life form you encounter, you are still going to have to deal with your own humanity."
Spader notes, "My character spent his life studying entire civilizations spanning centuries. The breadth of one lifetime is meaningless to him. I think what he discovers in the course of the story is the value of that one life and that every culture is made up of millions of single lifetimes."
Emmerich and Devlin concur that the humanity of the story shines through the hardware. "You can take this wild ride to another planet and encounter incredible things, but ultimately it's the people you have to care about," Devlin says.
Emmerich reflects, "Unlocking the StarGate begins the journey that these two people have to make."
Devlin sums it up: "The StarGate is a doorway to adventure."
