I slept for four days when I turned 40.

It was the early 1970s and I was recently divorced. I had three kids and was totally broke. I managed to find work back east on the straw-hat circuit - summer stock - but couldn't afford hotels, so I lived out of the back of my truck, under a hard shell.

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.

A series is filled with compromises.

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

My beautiful wife is dead. She meant everything to me. Her laughter, her tears and her joy will remain with me the rest of my life.

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