"I like contemporary American literature and I like biographies and I like jazz and I like baseball and I like writers who write about the human condition and sci-fi is just something that I happened into."

"I'm sort of in for a penny, in for a pound with Star Trek, It's my life at this point. To deny it would just be foolish."

"I think, frankly, that I'm a better director than I was an actor."

"I think that I've been pigeon-holed by virtue of the fact that I've spent so much time in front of a green screen."

"If the prime directives were followed a little more accurately here on earth, I mean it sounds somewhat Pollyanna, but I think people would certainly get along better."

"Well, there's much more time to do a weekly show, and much more coverage - as it turns out, it was all preparation for the stuff I'm doing now - but it was interesting to see how much time was spent on how little airtime, compared to knocking out a show a day on the soaps."

"I've always thought that we, as human beings, would be naive and arrogant to pretend that we're the only life form in the galaxy."

"I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one."

"I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors."