The first thing that put me on the map was my Sherlock Holmes novel.

I think all my Star Trek movies are very earthbound.

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

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

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

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.