The basic quality that any great story must have is a story that illustrates the human condition.

Careers are here and they're gone. No matter how great we think we are, we're nothing but the temples of Ozymandias-we're ruins in the making.

If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.

The conundrum of free will and destiny has always kept me dangling.

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine.

My dad died of a stroke.

I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.