I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor.

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen.

Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."

I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into.

One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.

I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish.