I'm always open to the possibility that somebody's got a better idea than I have. It happens with some frequency.

You know, the process of making a documentary is one of discovery, and like writing a story, you follow a lead and that leads you to something else and then by the time you finish, the story is nothing like you expected.

The great mystery of our consciousness is beyond our grasp.

I'm so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone. I go to a place I don't know. It might be painful. It might be the end. My thought is that it is the end. I become nameless, and I spent a lifetime being known.

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

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

Stop and smell the garlic! That's all you have to do.