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

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.

I think all my Star Trek movies are very earthbound.

In fact, we've entered a world which is arguably much more dangerous than [being] eyeball to eyeball with the USSR.

My father's book is about is about a number of things, but about Houdini's rage to not be a failure like his father, and it's also about converting X-rated material, namely bondage, into family friendly safe fare, which is what he did. It's also about death and resurrection, and rising to live again another day when everyone thinks you're dead.

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

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