What I want any genre to do, what I want any work of art to do, is to illuminate the human condition.

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.

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

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

The naive thing I suppose is simply that we thought, in the words of Francis Fukuyama, that we had reached the end of history and we were entering a brave new world minus the Soviet Union where everything was going to be peaches and cream.

Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.