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.

I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy.

If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better.

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

I always enjoyed going into the holodeck.

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."