I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was.

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

I hate to look at the stuff I've written and consider what it means or why I do it.

I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things.

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.

Whenever a toddler sees a pile of blocks, he wants to tear it down.