My work isn't any more important than anything else in the family

I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous.

When there's an authentic mystery, as opposed to just a question being asked, that's what makes you lean forward.

I find that it's hard to fully examine one's life and not have faith be part of the discussion.

I quickly said that, because of my loyalty to 'Star Trek' and also just being a fan, I wouldn’t even want to be involved in the next version of those things. I declined any involvement very early on. I’d rather be in the audience not knowing what was coming, rather than being involved in the minutiae of making them.

Maybe there are times when mystery is more important than knowledge. I realized that the white page is a magic box. Ultimately, the mistery box is all of us. Ubiquitous technologies. What comes next ? Mystery as catalyst for imagination.

I guess the idea of not wanting to choose to direct a film, for which I've not read a script. It's a tough decision to make without seeing any pages. That's not to say that I don't have all the faith in the world in the spectacular writers.