I think every leading man wants to be a character actor, and every character actor wants to be a leading man.

Certainly, because the computer and computer language was still not as common as it is today. That's one of the reasons I believe Tron wasn't as popular back then as it is today.

The most colorful section of a bookstore is the display of SF books, with art by people like Wayne Barlow, who is a terrific artist.

A show needs time to find an audience, and they're very quick to pull them off the air now.

Star Wars, the original movie, was all the various old genre of pictures: the swashbucklers, the war movies, all those things were put n there in a different look.

I've had quarter horses for the last 18 years.

I would love to do a Western again if Westerns came back into fashion.

I had a great run on Babylon 5. It was a lot of fun.

It's very frustrating not being on the air.

My fear, is that we are becoming so dependent on technology that if it was all taken away for some reason, some big incident, that we are losing our ability to function without it.

A storyteller is basically what actors and writers are.

If you decide not to take action, you are going to fail, and even if you do take action, if you can’t keep up your motivation, you will simply end up back where you started.

As for man, his days are numbered, whatever he might do, it is but wind.

Those things that hurt, instruct.

The United States is not only number one in military power but also in the effectiveness of its propaganda system.

Now that I'm not running, I can appear on Fox. Let the cabinet members do the low-ratings shows on MSNBC.

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.

Courage, I don't think anybody is born with courage. I think you may be born with a flair to braggadocio, you know. That's not courage.

Some ways of naming a generation are fruitful and some are not. Postmodernism is not. It doesn't really say anything.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

There are some people who can never see a little cloud of fantasy float across the horizon of their dreams without building a heavy castle in the air upon it, and bringing it to earth.