The truth was, it was still Star Trek, and I think there were things I wanted to do with Voyager that I could never really accomplish. I couldn’t do those things until I went to Battlestar. […] I don’t know that I really could have done that at Star Trek, […] because the show was not designed to tell that kind of story and it really would have flown in the face of a lot of things Gene [Roddenberry] had set up and that he had said were important to him. So I think I probably had somewhat unrealistic goals of where I wanted to go [with Voyager], but then I found an opportunity to do them on Battlestar.
Die Wahrheit ist, es war immer noch Star Trek, und ich denke es gab Dinge, die ich mit Voyager machen wollte, die ich nie wirklich erreichen konnte. Ich konnte diese Dinge nicht tun, bis ich zu Battlestar ging. […] Ich weiß, dass ich das wirklich nicht bei Star Trek hätte tun können, […] weil die Serie nicht dafür gemacht war, eine solche Geschichte zu erzählen und es wäre wirklich in starken Konflikt mit einer Menge von Dingen geraten, die Gene [Roddenberry] entwickelt hatte und von denen er gesagt hatte, dass sie ihm wichtig waren. Ich denke also, dass ich vermutlich ein bisschen unrealistische Ziele davon hatte, wohin ich [mit Voyager] gehen wollte, aber dann fand ich die Möglichkeit, sie bei Battlestar zu verwirklichen.
I'm an agnostic in the truest sense of the word. I think about these things - I grew up Roman Catholic, I've been interested in Hinduism, in Eastern religions, but I'm not dedicated to anything - I go through periods where I think maybe it's all nonsense; maybe it's 'The Matrix...' I'm open to various ideas.
Hier liegt ein schlummernder Riese. Er kam auf die Welt, erzählte ein großartiges Märchen, stolperte über Einschaltquoten und fiel in einen Tiefschlaf.
I'm just smart enough to know what it is I don't know and try to learn as I go along and accept that you're going to make mistakes, and there are going to be things that are not going to be perfect.
In television, there's this weird sense of isolation from your audience; you kind of get this feeling that you write the show for you and your wife and your friends and the other people who work on the show. It's our little show, and then it goes out into the world, and somebody watches it.
There's a special joy you get having a show on the air that people are interested in and wanting to know what happens next. You really want to enjoy that while you have it.
I have the distinct pleasure of doing exactly what I want to do and get paid for it. It's a joy.
What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.
When I grew up, I saw the moon landing, and I was fascinated watching them as a child, and that's what really turned me onto space and science fiction, and I started watching things like 'Lost In Space,' and that led me to 'Star Trek,' which was a major influence on my life.
I felt that 'Deep Space' was the way to do a spin off series of an existing franchise where you really are doing a very different show. It's a different format. It's a different feeling.
I was very pleased with the way that the show ended creatively and personally. It just feels like we've completed the piece. And now to be able to step back a little bit and look at it from beginning to end, I feel good about the complete story that is 'Battlestar Galactica.'
I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in.
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