There's an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture... It's palpable.

The name Shatner is Austrian and partly Germanic, and there's Germanic reticence and silence perhaps, but there is passion underneath.

Energy is the key to creativity. Energy is the key to life.

I'm interested in man's march into the unknown but to vomit in space is not my idea of a good time. Neither is a fiery crash with the vomit hovering over me.

Montreal is a very cosmopolitan, sophisticated, erudite, educated, glorious city today. But it wasn't quite that way when I was growing up there. There was a lot of anti-Semitism. And I had to deal with that in an area of the city that had very few Jews.

All in all, Kirk's character is something I am very proud of.

I love living in Los Angeles.