It was always hard to find stories that I felt were, in and of themselves, fresh enough and intriguing enough .

There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one, and inhabiting it, that we really should.

You reach a point where you say you're not going to do juveniles any longer.

Confidence is preparation in action.

I just don't think of myself as an actor much at all, so I don't lust after any particular roles.

I think the most important thing really was that you could take very personal ideas and present them to an audience in entertaining ways.

The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue to evolve.