I worked with my son when he was much younger; we did L.A. Law together, where I played his father and he played a kid who was suing his father for alienation of affection or something. It was great.

They've got to deliver twenty-six episodes a season and they're not going to beat their heads up against a wall if they feel something didn't, like, pan out the way they had hoped.

The writers and producers always have an idea, then they cast the role and the instrument starts to tell them how to play the music.

I came out of repertory theater, where I worked 50 weeks a year, and I loved working with a team.

If you do your job properly you usually learn a lot from any role you do.

I love the fact that it's not only about Star Trek, but about science fiction in general, and science.

And my father, being a good Swiss puritan, always really insisted that if I was going to be an actor, I shouldn't just be an actor, I should know about the whole process.