Every hour that you spend doing something, even if you love it more than anything, you're not with your family. Every project that you take on, that's another choice.

The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of.

One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality.

Every hour that you spend doing something, even if you love it more than anything, you're not with your family. Every project that you take on, that's another choice.

I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature.

I'd like to use IMAX. The problem with IMAX is that it's a very loud camera. It's a very unreliable camera. Only so much film can be in the camera. You can't really do intimate scenes with it.

I'm not trying to be coy or manipulative or Machiavellian, I want to spark people's imaginations.