Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see.

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

I think all my Star Trek movies are very earthbound.

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

Roddenberry had his own utopian vision about he perfectibility of man, and I never really believed that. And I don’t think the show demonstrates that. I think it is about gunboat diplomacy. In the final analysis, the Enterprise fires. They’re always shooting and bringing civilization, and coming to worlds where they don’t approve of tyrannical enterprises – no pun intended – and they substitute their own quote unquote enlightened version of how society is supposed to work, which is essentially American.

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.

Art doesn't just happen by accident. It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.