One of my philosophies as a director is to listen to other people's great ideas because they'll help make you better.

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.

Someone once said "Don't try to be a great man. Just be a man, and let history make its own judgements."

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'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.

No, the type-casting didn't happen until after Star Trek. I don't think that you get typecast until you've been cast!

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

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

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

Don't get me wrong-I'm very thankful for all the aliens I've met and loved.

I don't think you ever leave Star Trek for good.

It is much easier to be brave if you do not know everything.

If You Respect Their Preparation, You never Drop the Baton

Like yeast, it’s impressive how considerably an ounce of determination can make one’s efforts grow and expand.

There are lots of things a warrior can do at a certain time which he couldn't do years before. Those things themselves did not change; what changed was his idea of himself.

Labor in this country is independent and proud. It has not to ask the patronage of capital, but capital solicits the aid of labor.

Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better.

I think sequels are very dangerous if you assume and presume success. I think you have to plan each film as a standalone and commit yourself to that as your primary objective.

All that was great in the past was ridiculed, condemned, combated, suppressed — only to emerge all the more powerfully, all the more triumphantly from the struggle.

The art of the novel is to arrive at that artless point where your characters become more real than yourself.

I don't play the same guy a lot because there really isn't a guy for me. There really isn't a type you can put me in that satisfies everything.