"You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it."
"I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening."
"What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television."
"I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do."
"'Star Trek' was always a little bit closed emotionally. I never connected to the characters."
"I was never really a comic-book fanatic."
"I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill."
"All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear."
"The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of."
"Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like."
"I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be."
"One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality."
"As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was."
"The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion."
"People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised."
"I love recording music."
"I'm a fast writer."
"I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality."
"With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious."
"I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective."
"Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior."
"I think when you're 10 years old, it's too much to see something with the threat of death in every episode. Kids are better left naive about certain things."
"Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different."
"When you go to commercial, you want something to call the viewers back, and if you don't have a decent act out, the audience probably won't be there in the numbers you want when the show returns."
"We're living at a time where if you do a Google search for a 'show, review and network,' you'll get 'The New York Times' and Pete Billingsley from a town you've never heard of on the same results page. It's kind of democratizing the process so that everyone has access to a distribution system to express themselves."
