I think all my Star Trek movies are very earthbound.

I'm not really interested in the exploding car or endless sort of dystopian fantasies and superheroes. None of that... that doesn't interest me very much.

So the Lincoln movie gets trashed because Connecticut voted for the amendment - not to mention how the people in Connecticut feel - but there's a lot of that. And I think it precedes from a fundamental misunderstanding of cinema. They are entertainment. And I'd like to say that entertainment isn't a synonym for disposable or mindless or stupid. Hamlet? Pretty entertaining from where I come from.

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

What’s the difference between and actor and a movie star. An actor is someone who pretends to be somebody else. A movie star is somebody who pretends that somebody else is them.

Leo Tolstoy said the purpose of art is to teach you to love life. And that's what I want.

We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing.