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

I never gave my career much strategic thought. Maybe I should have.

I think all my Star Trek movies are very earthbound.

The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end of history and we were entering a brave new world minus the Soviet Union where everything was going to be peaches and cream.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.

In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR.

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.