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

Don't get me wrong-I'm very thankful for all the aliens I've met and loved.

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!

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.

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.