I'm mainly interested in people trying to figure s#!t out.

I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.

Having done, you know, science fiction, I didn't want to get trapped in science fiction. So my eclecticism was my only conscious choice. I didn't want to find myself in a niche that I couldn't get out of.

I think all my Star Trek movies are very earthbound.

What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

There are movies I've made that I think no celebrations are in order.

Actors will change their face, will change their hair, will change their voice, will disappear into the role. A movie star doesn't disappear.