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.

I think I'm a better director than I ever was an actor. I'd love to go back to acting, but nobody seems to want me.

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'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.

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 think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.