Art and commerce are not irreconciliable, they are inextricably intertwined.

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

The director is a bit analogous to the conductor of a symphony orchestra. It's a collaborative adventure.

But you have to understand what that really did is that it opened these DVDs to be sources of oral history instead of puff pieces for the studio, because people involved with them being in fear of being sued by somebody, so it became another form of movie history. I mean I didn't plan it, but I'm proud that it happened. Which is probably why they didn't interview me for this DVD.

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.

Once you decide that you're going to have the death of Spock, then how does that affect the other people? Why is it there? I got a lot of stick from a lot of people from the very beginning about the idea of killing Spock. Somebody said, "You can't kill him." And I said, "Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well."