My first interaction with Gene was that after I auditioned I walked out of the room and then this big guy walks out with me, and he puts his hand on my shoulder and he says, 'You make my words sound better than they are.' And I said, 'Well, you must be the writer.' And he said 'I'm Gene Roddenberry.' And I had no idea who that was.
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Q is one big stew that keeps on boiling.
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There's something inherently life-denying in television and radio and stuff that's canned.
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I kind of pride myself in the fact that when people hire me it's always considered creative casting.
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I was raised on the classics - Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, and others.
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Q was naughty, you know? He's naughty. He's not evil. He's not all good. He's sort of bad. You get to play him the way you role out of bed in the morning.
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I don't physically enjoy watching TV. I don't enjoy the commercials.
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Almost everywhere in the world you go, people will come up and say, "Oh my God, you're from 'Star Trek.'"
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I sail to Hawaii and back a lot, and it sometimes involves very terrifying experiences. And you have to keep yourself from becoming panicky.
