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

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.

First of all, I should preface this by the observation that artists are not the best judges of what they've done and the word definitive does not belong, in my opinion, in any conversation about art. When somebody says it's the "definitive" something, I'm always recoiling.

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

Schools and libraries are the twin cornerstones of a civilized society. Libraries are only good if people use them, like books only exist when someone reads them.

I think all my Star Trek movies are very earthbound.

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.