I like to quote things.
I go around the country, and I speak to colleges, conferences and thousands of people at a time, and I'm like, 'Great. Fine. Whatever.' Coming to speak to about 60 kids, I am scared to death.
You can’t has,' he whispered softly, 'not yours.
When you get a group of kids together, especially boys, the psychology of those kids requires that they find a weak kid or a sensitive kid or a soft kid.
Either you have a sense of humor about being a former child star, or you're in rehab. There's not a lot of gray area.
To understand a field, you look at its arts. Arts can be cautionary as well as inspiring.
I'm going to go talk to some people to see if you could be in the movie because you should be in the movie.
It's nearly impossible to enforce actual consequences in video games at the moment, but at a table, sitting face-to-face across a tabletop game, or even playing at a LAN party, sportsmanship matters.
I am a huge geek. And Star Trek was a haven for geeks.
I obviously pursued a career in the arts but always wondered if I had just been supported a little more in math, as opposed to it being 'a thing I had to learn,' how that would have changed things for me.
I was such a geek that if I could go back in time, I would kick my own ass.
I spent a lot of my childhood not fitting in, in a lot of different ways.
We always had fun when we were working on Next Generation, but when Majel was on the set, it was a party.
I want people to understand and embrace that the art that inspires our technological dreams is just as important as the tech it helps us create.
Fun fact: I hate dancing. It makes me feel self conscious, stupid, uncoordinated, and like a complete idiot. Because I don't particularly enjoy feeling that way, I probably dance once a year, to only one song, and only to make Anne happy when she wants to dance with her husband at whatever thing we've gone to where they have organized dancing.
Anonymity, in some cases a key civil liberty, also enables society's worst actors.
I'm not really a jerk but I have fun playing one.
I'm privileged to occasionally stand on a table, and people listen to what I say, and in those moments, it's important to me that I have something to say and that I honor it.
Discovery Channel betrayed trust during its biggest viewing week of the year. Discovery Channel isn't run by stupid people, and this was not some kind of a mistake. Someone made a deliberate choice to present a work of fiction that is more suited for the Syfy channel as a truthful and factual documentary. That is disgusting.
I've done a lot of geeky things in my life, but I think the geekiest of all was my first effort to build props and cosplay, when I was about twelve years-old.
I loved Galaxy Quest. I thought it was brilliant satire, not only of Trek, but of fandom in general. The only thing I wish they had done was cast me in it, and have me play a freaky fanboy who keeps screaming at the actor who played "the kid" about how awful it was that there was a kid on the spaceship. Alas.
One of the things that I'm very proud to stand up and yell about is that we need to end gatekeeping in our society. We need to stop people from saying, 'You need to pass the test if you're going to come in here and do this.'
When I saw Galaxy Quest, I remembered how much fun I used to have at conventions, and I missed it. I missed the interaction with the fans. I missed the chance to tell stories about my life on TNG... but mostly, I missed the sex. The hot, Klingon-forehead-wearing fansex.
Someone who I would describe as a 'geek' or 'nerd' is a person who loves something to its greatest extent and then looks for other people who love it the same way so they can celebrate loving it together.
Being a nerd is not about what you love; it's about the way you love it.
I was obsessed with 'Ghostbusters.'
Don't be a dick.
It probably wasn't until I was a freshman in high school and I met the people who became my gaming group that I finally found people who were weird like I was: that loved reading and playing games and not just watching a science fiction or fantasy movie but talking all about it.
Sometimes we know in our bones what we really need to do, but we're afraid to do it. Taking a chance and stepping beyond the safety of the world we've always known is the only way to grow, though and without risk there is no reward.
People who don't want to give a creator money are never going to give a creator money.
As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, “Aye, Sir. Course laid in” is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.
When I was a boy, I was called a nerd all the time - because I didn't like sports, I loved to read, I liked math and science, I thought school was really cool - and it hurt a lot. Because it's never OK when a person makes fun of you for something you didn't choose. You know, we don't choose to be nerds.
When I was a kid, I wanted to be as good an actor as Patrick, as cool as Frakes, and as funny as Brent. From time to time, one of them would say something to me that made me feel like I'd taken a step in that direction, and it always meant the world to me. I loved it when Brent would joke around with me, because it made me feel like I was the peer I so desperately wanted to be, instead of the clueless teenager I knew I was.
When you say a 'former child star,' you may as well say 'failed child star.'
Well, I’ve got three things working against me before I even
walk into the room:
1. I’m the last speaker of the day. The fans are tired and a little
burned out.
2. I’m following Michael Dorn and Marina Sirtis. They do conventions
together all the time, have a set routine that never
fails, and the fans adore them.
3. I was Wesley Crusher.
If the world were a bar, America would currently be the angry drunk waving around a loaded gun. Yeah, the other people in the bar may be afraid of him, but they sure as hell don't respect him.
Q is like a stupid Internet Troll; he makes some strawman accusation against Picard, Picard refutes his argument with logic and reason, and Q just changes the terms of the argument, all the while enjoying the attention he’s getting. But does anyone create alt.q.die.die.die? No, of course not. Life is so fucking unfair.
One of the things that drives me crazy is the belief in Hollywood that bittorrent exists solely for stealing things.
Next Generation was immensely popular at the time, and I was still riding high on the success of Stand by Me. They couldn’t understand why I was so intimidated by these actors – my face was splashed across the cover of every teen magazine in print. Why was I so intimidated? I was a 16 year-old geek, with a chance to meet The Big Three from Star Trek. You do the math.
I think the default position of humans is to be terrible, and we have to train it out of our children. That's just part of survival, right? Predator animals don't survive by being nice; humans are basically predator animals.
Be honest. Be kind. Be honorable. Work hard. And always be awesome.
Some ISPs are blocking all BitTorrent traffic, because BitTorrent can be used to share files in a piratical way. Hollywood lobbying groups are trying to pass laws which would force ISPs to block or degrade BitTorrent traffic, too. Personally, I think this is like closing down freeways because a bank robber could use them to get away.
Things every person should have: •A nemesis. •An evil twin. •A secret headquarters. •An escape hatch. •A partner in crime. •A secret identity.
When a person makes fun of you, when a person is cruel to you, it has nothing to do with you. It's not about what you said. It's not about what you did. It's not about what you love. It's about them feeling bad about themselves.
Keep playing games. Make time to play games with your friends and family, because it's surprisingly heartbreaking to wipe a thin layer of dust off a game you love, before you put it back on the shelf because the real world is calling you.
I'm basically a professional nerd, and I'm still not cool. I'm around people who are cool sometimes, and I know I'm not them. But that's OK; I don't care.
Don't let the fear of not pleasing someone stop you from being creative.
I'm guess I'm up to about 70% of normal, which is a real relief. My doctor gave me clearance to go out in public again, so I've been able to go to the store and help out a little bit around the house.
The goal isn’t to make something everyone will love; the goal is to get excited, and make a thing where something wasn’t before.
To be sure, anonymity online has it uses and is very important. Governments hoover up people's telephone and e-mail records without oversight, and companies track astonishingly granular personal information.
No matter what I do with my life, or how successful I am, I will always be a socially awkward penguin inside.
I'm very lucky in that I was inspired by science fiction while I was a little kid, and I was interested in science and technology and was encouraged to pursue those interests.
I have found that the key to being happy - well, one of the keys, anyway - is to be easily amused.
I love tabletop and video games, which should be open and inclusive to everyone.
I don’t know what the future of my career holds, but I know that whatever is over the horizon, the road I’ve traveled to get here is like those Interstates in Texas: everything can look the same, and it can feel like you’re not going anywhere, until you suddenly get where you’re going and realize that you’ve been traveling for a long time.
I would love to find myself in a position where I have to decide, 'Gosh, do I want to be on a series?'
Stay strong. Depression lies.
Paranormal reality shows are some of the best unintentional comedy in the history of recorded entertainment.
I met Shatner on the set of Star Trek V, and he was horrible to me. He was cruel, and dismissive, and treated me the way I understand he treats pretty much everyone who tells him how much they loved him as Captain Kirk.
I fell in love with Dungeons & Dragons, and the storytelling of it, and the weird dice, and the fact that it didn't use a traditional board. It felt like I was a part of something special and almost kind of like a secret club because a lot of people didn't know what it was and didn't understand it.
Found a dead body when I was 12, saved the Enterprise a few times, Ran the Axis of Anarchy, broke up Penny and Leonard. Currently running the non-lethal weapons lab at Global Dynamics.
I was lucky to have been a seven-year-old kid when I saw 'Star Wars.'
I'm so fed up with being told that I'm a bad person because I don't subscribe to the same exact narrow views Christians have.
Even when I was little and going on auditions, it was clear who was there because they wanted to be there, and who was there because their stage parents were making them be there. There was a major difference.
Sorry, Vern. I guess a more experienced shopper could have gotten more for your seven cents.
'Ghost Adventures,' 'Mountain Monsters,' weird alien UFO shows like 'Ancient Aliens.' The people who are self-appointed experts in these fields are really a series of national treasures.
My wife is the most awesome person in the universe. She's made this experience much less miserable for me, with her compassion, patience and understanding.
I really try my best to be the person I want other people to be.
If you enjoyed making a thing, and you’re proud of the thing you made, that’s enough. Not everyone is going to like it, and that’s okay.
To the best of my knowledge, a lot of people who play video games also play tabletop games and vice versa.
The Lord of the Rings trilogy restored the balance in the Force after the Star Wars prequels ruined everything that was awesome about being a nerd at the movies.
Even when I was little, people would always ask me if I wanted to be a movie star, and I would always say, 'No, I just want to be an actor.'
Sometimes, a person who likes your work and a person who don’t will show up within milliseconds of each other to let you know how they feel. One does not need to cancel out the other, positively or negatively; if you’re proud of the work, and you enjoyed the work, that is what’s important.
One of the things that I've never seen in tabletop gaming is this juvenile notion that the existence of a game that I don't like, or the existence of a gamer who's different than me, threatens my very existence and the very existence of my hobby.
I'm keenly aware of the Pride coming before the Fall . . . but I really do like what I've been able to do here.
This news would have ended any other presidency, and it won't even matter by the end of the week.
A short thread that shows us what we can predict for Shitler's impending political bankruptcy, based on how Shitler has handled his business bankruptcies.
Collins and Murkowski are setting up their constituents to take the blame when the senators break their pledge to oppose any SCOTUS nominee who does not support Roe. Flood their offices with calls and letters so they have to honor the pledge they made to support women's rights.
BREAKING NEWS: it is still too hot to move.
The Republican party is the party of child abuse. Every single person who is responsible for this, from Trump on down, should be tried for crimes against humanity.
In spite of a court order, over 700 children who were kidnapped by the United States government have still not been reunited with their parents, because Trump and the Republicans are the party of child abuse. This is sickening.
UPDATE: it is still too hot to move.
ADDITIONAL UPDATE: it's too hot to correctly type "it is" in a stupid tweet that is stupid.
When I go to follow someone I respect and admire, and I see that they are already following me for some reason.
Anne just tried on a dress she ordered, and discovered that not only does it look great, it also has pockets. I have never seen her this happy about anything, and it is awesome.
Anne and I got to see the premiere of Teen Titans Go to the Movies this weekend. It is the most entertaining and enjoyable DC heroes movie I have ever seen. It is fun and silly for kids, with sharp, brilliant satire for their parents. 5 out of 5, highly recommended.
Ikea should start including a page of Swedish curse words with those pictures they give you instead of instructions.
Me: *eats lunch*
Dog: Are you eating chicken? I like chicken.
Me: I thought you wanted to go outside.
Dog: What? I have never once asked to go outside, ever. Anyway, about your chicken...
Me: Nope.
Dog: *aggressively drools*
Me: Nope.
Dog: *sad puppy eyes*
Me: Go outside.
Dog: LET ME GO OUTSIDE.
Me: It's over 100 out. You don't want to be out there.
Dog: OPEN THE DOOR OPEN THE DOOR OPEN THE DOOR.
Me: You have a dog door.
Dog: *blank look*
Me: *sighs* *opens door*
Dog: UGH TOO HOT.
Me: I tried to tell you.
Dog: OPEN THE DOOR SO I CAN GO OUTSIDE.
Did you know I'm joining some of my castmates AND THOMAS FREAKING DOLBY for the Star Trek cruise next year? I did a brief interview about it, if you're into that sort of thing.
There is so much whataboutism in my mentions, rather than reply to them all, I'm just going to say: I need you to take your whataboutism, and shove it way way way way up inside your butthole. Just shove it right in there. Good job! Thank you so much!
The fact that the President of the United States made secret agreements with Putin, and refuses to tell the citizens of this country and other elected officials what they are, should end his presidency immediately. We are not Trump's subjects. This is not a monarchy.
Remember, if the Electoral College functioned as it was intended to by the people who created it (and not the modern day Republicans who have corrupted and exploited it to subvert the popular vote), none of this would be happening right now.
I just turned in the final draft of my novel, All We Ever Wanted Was Everything, to my editor. Final word count of the draft is 78504. I feel like I should be celebrating, but I know that there's still a ways to go before it's ready to be published.
Just want to make sure I'm not the only person in Los Angeles who isn't talking about the weird thunderstorm that just showed up, made a bunch of noise, and left without saying goodbye.
Sonntag, 29. Juli 2018
Donnerstag, 26. Juli 2018
Happy Birthday Nana Visitor!
I don't have a really good handle on reality, not when my senses are being filled like they were on the show," she said. "It was happening, and it was important. It was real to me.
The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
I really loved our pilot. I was sick and missed the premiere of it in the theater. I had the flu. And they sent me a videotape of it. I remember goosebumps when the station appeared and that haunting music started playing. I just couldn't believe what the show looked like. I knew what the sets were, what the actors were, but putting it all together, I found it stunning.
I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.
My connection started when I was a teenager. I was about 18 years old and doing a Broadway show as a chorus girl. And it came on, on channel 11, I think it was at 6 or 6:30. I would fix myself dinner, sit down and watch Star Trek and then go do my show.
I remember I was out of town, I think it was Boston, and I didn't know anything about conventions or the fan world or Trekkers or anything like that. And I was put in a hotel that had a convention going on, or at least I'm assuming that's what it was because everyone was dressed like Spock and it was really just the original characters. It just seemed like the most exotic, most fun world. That's all really I thought of it until I joined the cast.
We need to tell ourselves stories that advance us, and Star Trek advances us.
Through history, human beings relay stories. They need myths, they need ways of seeing where they are, and where they could go. People talk about a journey in a spaceship. We have individual journeys of our own that we need to do while we're alive. I think it gives us ideas of how we could do it better and what makes it better and what are our dreams. I think that's why we need it.
Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.
I have deep feelings about Star Trek. I feel that it's able to present archetypes that are important storytelling tools. And we need storytelling.
I really wanted to do Captain Janeway. I wanted everything, but I didn't want to leave Kira...I wanted to do it all.
The top of the world from my plane's window. If this was all an ET saw of our world, I imagine they'd say " mmm maybe not "
I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.
That was the only exposure I had. I was very much into "War and Peace" and F. Scott Fitzgerald. I went through all the classics. I read scientists like Asimov and all those guys, but I never really understood the power of placing the lessons we learn through mythology in the future. In a future that looks the way Star Trek does. And I didn't understand the power of that until I started doing it.
StarTrek Discovery stands respectfully on the shoulders of past Treks and is positioned to take the tradition into the future. I loved it.
The point of writing my name to you is that I see who you are, you see who I am... and that's what it's about.
I really loved our pilot. I was sick and missed the premiere of it in the theater. I had the flu. And they sent me a videotape of it. I remember goosebumps when the station appeared and that haunting music started playing. I just couldn't believe what the show looked like. I knew what the sets were, what the actors were, but putting it all together, I found it stunning.
I don't get what my signature is supposed to mean if we haven't had some kind of exchange.
My connection started when I was a teenager. I was about 18 years old and doing a Broadway show as a chorus girl. And it came on, on channel 11, I think it was at 6 or 6:30. I would fix myself dinner, sit down and watch Star Trek and then go do my show.
I remember I was out of town, I think it was Boston, and I didn't know anything about conventions or the fan world or Trekkers or anything like that. And I was put in a hotel that had a convention going on, or at least I'm assuming that's what it was because everyone was dressed like Spock and it was really just the original characters. It just seemed like the most exotic, most fun world. That's all really I thought of it until I joined the cast.
We need to tell ourselves stories that advance us, and Star Trek advances us.
Through history, human beings relay stories. They need myths, they need ways of seeing where they are, and where they could go. People talk about a journey in a spaceship. We have individual journeys of our own that we need to do while we're alive. I think it gives us ideas of how we could do it better and what makes it better and what are our dreams. I think that's why we need it.
Now I'm going to put my eyelashes on and stretch my legs out and do a show.
I have deep feelings about Star Trek. I feel that it's able to present archetypes that are important storytelling tools. And we need storytelling.
I really wanted to do Captain Janeway. I wanted everything, but I didn't want to leave Kira...I wanted to do it all.
The top of the world from my plane's window. If this was all an ET saw of our world, I imagine they'd say " mmm maybe not "
I would love to have seen a male-female relationship that had nothing to do with falling in love, I'd love to prove, even on TV - even if it's not true! - that men and women can be friends without any kind of involvement.
That was the only exposure I had. I was very much into "War and Peace" and F. Scott Fitzgerald. I went through all the classics. I read scientists like Asimov and all those guys, but I never really understood the power of placing the lessons we learn through mythology in the future. In a future that looks the way Star Trek does. And I didn't understand the power of that until I started doing it.
StarTrek Discovery stands respectfully on the shoulders of past Treks and is positioned to take the tradition into the future. I loved it.
Sonntag, 15. Juli 2018
Happy Birthday Jörg Kachelmann!
Mir hat eine Frau ganz klassisch aus ökonomischen Gründen zwei Kuckuckskinder untergejubelt und sie hat auch noch meine Unterschrift unter einem Unterhaltsvertrag gefälscht. Ich hatte zuerst geglaubt, dass es meine Kinder seien. Inzwischen weiß ich, dass sie denselben Vater irgendwo in der Südschweiz haben, der sich sicher kranklacht über meine Blödheit wie auch die Mutter selbst, die mit diesem doppelten Betrug weit über eine Million Euro verdient hat, denn als Mann ist man vor Gerichten immer der Depp, auch wenn man nicht mal der leibliche Vater der Kinder ist.
Wetter ist das, was ein kurzer Blick aus dem Fenster zeigt. Klima ist das, was ein Mensch erlebt, der sich 30 Jahre lang ohne Unterbrechungen aufs Fensterbrett stützt.
Ich war immer ein institutionengläubiger Spießer gewesen, war außer durch ein paar Kleinstverkehrsverstöße nie auffällig geworden bei der Polizei und glaubte im Übrigen an die Justiz in Deutschland - und in Baden-Württemberg, wo ich geboren bin, sowieso.
Mir ist das Wetter wurscht. Hauptsache, die Vorhersage stimmt.
Alice Schwarzer hat aus der Klägerin eine Ikone der Lüge gemacht und sich selbst zur Schutzheiligen einer Kriminellen erklärt. Schade um eine Frau, die früher mal Verdienste hatte.
Es geht um das Prinzip der Falschbeschuldigung. So etwas ist ja nicht nur mir passiert, sondern vielen anderen Prominenten und vor allem vielen Nichtprominenten, von denen man nie liest. Falschbeschuldigungen sind leider zu einer beliebten Waffe geworden. Man könnte fast von einem Massenphänomen sprechen.
Ich habe etwas gegen das Jammern über das Wetter. Es wäre wirklich unpraktisch, wenn es nie regnen würde in Deutschland.
Je einen guten Anwalt zu nehmen, einen für Straf-, einen für Medienrecht. Ich habe lernen müssen, dass es gute und schlechte Anwälte gibt. Es wird immer wieder geschrieben, dass man viel Geld braucht, um sich gegen eine Falschbeschuldigung zu verteidigen - das ist nicht richtig, in meinem Leben waren die schlechtesten Anwälte die teuersten und die besten zeichneten sich immer dadurch aus, dass Sie um mich und um die Gerechtigkeit kämpften wie um ihr eigenes Leben und erst später, viel später sich um Geld Gedanken machten.
Meine liebsten Hobbys sind: Wetter und nochmal Wetter.
Es gibt heute die kollektive Bereitschaft in weiten Teilen des deutschen Journalismus, Blödsinn zu schreiben. Es gibt eine weit verbreitete Hybris, die es so vor 20 Jahren nicht gegeben hat. Und ich bin nicht sicher, ob es um schlechte Nachrichten geht. Es geht nicht mehr um die Wahrheit und das ist das, was mir Sorgen macht.
Wetter ist das, was ein kurzer Blick aus dem Fenster zeigt. Klima ist das, was ein Mensch erlebt, der sich 30 Jahre lang ohne Unterbrechungen aufs Fensterbrett stützt.
Ich war immer ein institutionengläubiger Spießer gewesen, war außer durch ein paar Kleinstverkehrsverstöße nie auffällig geworden bei der Polizei und glaubte im Übrigen an die Justiz in Deutschland - und in Baden-Württemberg, wo ich geboren bin, sowieso.
Mir ist das Wetter wurscht. Hauptsache, die Vorhersage stimmt.
Alice Schwarzer hat aus der Klägerin eine Ikone der Lüge gemacht und sich selbst zur Schutzheiligen einer Kriminellen erklärt. Schade um eine Frau, die früher mal Verdienste hatte.
Es geht um das Prinzip der Falschbeschuldigung. So etwas ist ja nicht nur mir passiert, sondern vielen anderen Prominenten und vor allem vielen Nichtprominenten, von denen man nie liest. Falschbeschuldigungen sind leider zu einer beliebten Waffe geworden. Man könnte fast von einem Massenphänomen sprechen.
Ich habe etwas gegen das Jammern über das Wetter. Es wäre wirklich unpraktisch, wenn es nie regnen würde in Deutschland.
Je einen guten Anwalt zu nehmen, einen für Straf-, einen für Medienrecht. Ich habe lernen müssen, dass es gute und schlechte Anwälte gibt. Es wird immer wieder geschrieben, dass man viel Geld braucht, um sich gegen eine Falschbeschuldigung zu verteidigen - das ist nicht richtig, in meinem Leben waren die schlechtesten Anwälte die teuersten und die besten zeichneten sich immer dadurch aus, dass Sie um mich und um die Gerechtigkeit kämpften wie um ihr eigenes Leben und erst später, viel später sich um Geld Gedanken machten.
Meine liebsten Hobbys sind: Wetter und nochmal Wetter.
Es gibt heute die kollektive Bereitschaft in weiten Teilen des deutschen Journalismus, Blödsinn zu schreiben. Es gibt eine weit verbreitete Hybris, die es so vor 20 Jahren nicht gegeben hat. Und ich bin nicht sicher, ob es um schlechte Nachrichten geht. Es geht nicht mehr um die Wahrheit und das ist das, was mir Sorgen macht.
Freitag, 13. Juli 2018
Happy Birthday Sir Patrick Stewart!
We are experiencing the greatest humanitarian crisis of our lifetime - more people than ever before are fleeing their homes as a result of conflict and crisis.
And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred people sitting there, I was never afraid, I was never fearful, I didn't suffer from stage fright, because I felt so safe on that stage. I wasn't Patrick Stewart, I wasn't in the environment that frightened me, I was pretending to be someone else, and I liked the other people I pretended to be. So I felt nothing but security for being on stage. And I think that's what drew me to this strange job of playing make-believe.
I've been picking apples in the autumn since before it was cool to post about it on Instagram.
I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
If you love movies and curious how a part of Hollywood works, read pal Mike Westmore's fascinating book: Makeup Man from Rocky to Star Trek.
Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable, ignore or excuse all such forms of violence. I promise to do so, and to invite other me and allies to do the same.
My son's sartorial clout is something to be reckoned with.
The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
I always knew you were authentic sonshine! The Stewart brand is strong.
Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.
Trump’s new Muslim ban is just as discriminatory and bad.
I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.
This was so much fun that 10 minutes in I forgot we were on camera...airs tonight in US on BBC America.
As a child, I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs. Stewart, you must've done something to provoke him.' 'Mrs. Stewart, it takes two to make an argument.' Wrong. Wrong! My mother did nothing to provoke that - and even if she had, violence is never ever a choice that a man should make. Ever.
His NSA has resigned and his first piece of policy is ruled unconstitutional. Slippery slope!And soon this charlatan will be on it.
Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.
Had the worst sleep of my life last night. But I was sleeping less than 300 yds from where Donald Trump sleeps. Could there be a connection?
I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life.
Seen from the train: a sign on the edge of a cemetery, Express Freight. That's how I want to go.
Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
First time back in continental Europe since Brexit. I was once so proud to be part of the Union. Now embarrassed to be British.
This is a call to action—not an action that will make things better in six months’ time or a year’s time, but action that might save someone’s life and someone’s future this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow morning.
I found this morning's press conference profoundly disturbing.
There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.
I'm disappointed that Blunt Talk is cancelled. Walter's voice is silenced. I loved him - but more I loved all my fellow actors and creators.
So far as education is concerned, it has had a significant impact on a lot of young people who turn to science as a much more exciting and interesting study than they otherwise might have found, entirely as a result of becoming involved with Star Trek.
Kirk Douglas was 100 years old yesterday. Honored to know him when I lived in LA. Watch Ace in the Hole, Detective Story, Lust for Life.
The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!
Hi, fellow Guardian readers. Question: when did the main cartoon last make you laugh? Smile? Or even understand what the hell it was about?
At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.
What I am sipping now: champagne with pamplemousse liqueur.
Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
I played Newcastle many times over many years. I love the city, but most of all, I love the people.
All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.There was nowhere else I wanted to go. TV was of no interest. Films were just a fantasy. Yet I was convinced that when we found ourselves in that world of fantasy and sci-fi, it was our classical background and our training that equipped us for that larger-than life-world.
Doing the things I never got a chance to do in Patrick Stewart's life.
Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
Yes! The right to vote is a privilege in all democracies. Please play your part.
Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects considered to be a male preserve. Women can talk about sexuality and their bodily functions and it can be very, very entertaining. It's changed the impact of comedy acting.
Best of all, I like the good bad guys.
During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.
Knowing for certain that "where there is muck, there is brass."
I've been a witness to unfairness in society all my life. To the conditions under which my mother worked all her life, working in an industrial weaving shed in the north of England. And it has been this feature of unfairness that has motivated me in all of my political thinking.
Everything by Mozart, Stephen Sondheim, Paul Simon, Randy Newman and Gillian Welch.
It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
Absolutely...stirred, never shaken.
Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?
Thank you, but not before and afterwards, I always have plans.
I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
I hope it will be released the day after tomorrow.
I know it feels like two steps forward and one step back, but we are making progress. In my lifetime, I have lived through one World War, I have lived through the end of Apartheid in South Africa, the pulling down of the Berlin Wall. I have experienced what I never thought I would have experienced, which is a pretty workable peace in Northern Ireland, and I experienced a unified Europe - until the Conservative government got its hands on the idea that in order to appease a few back-benchers they would hold a referendum, what a disastrous idea.
I can say modestly that I make a superb gin martini.
I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
Lots of people who are not theater majors end up homeless. We are all lucky to have a roof over our heads. Good luck.
When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.
Pablo Picasso. And I'll be happy to take a painting in payment.
It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
The underlying and not so underlying racism in all of our Western societies.
It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.
Well, the funny roles have only come about recently. I now find myself thinking about laughter more than I do about tears.
The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.
The time has never been better for beer drinkers than now. New beer parlors open all the time in my small Brooklyn community. I love it.
I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I remember leaving the theatre promising myself that one day I would have a go at this play and then pretty much forgot it for 50 years.
Every day. There are aspects of Walter that come out of my own life.
I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
Easy explanation: I am a fully paid up member of Cute Anonymous.
Laurence Olivier said if you have ambition to be a serious classical actor, you must be as fit as an athlete. For me, the breakthrough was going to live in California. I exercised. I drank less. It was one of the things about California that had a positive impact on me.
My green grocer after he had seen me in a local pantomime. However, a critic wrote that my performance was "barely adequate."
I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
Cleopatra. And I hope Walter's appearance in drag this season of #BluntTalk may give people ideas.
There's no such thing as "just a domestic".
I live in an area where foxes are a part of the wild landscape, and a ban on fox hunting matters to me.
Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.
I'm 100% fine, but found myself in St Mary's Paddington A+E late last night and have only praise for UK's NHS. Doctors, nurses, everyone.
I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.
Hands done my all-time favourite Trekkie. Thank you Madame Secretary!
I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.
In this day and age why are there still events in the Olympic Games which depend on men and women hurting each other as much as possible?
We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again! The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!
Wensleydale, North Yorkshire - bliss. And a lovely Hotel - The Stone House, Hawes.
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
Confess: had an intense week on Pinter's No Man's Land. Came home, reached for remote and there was ST:TNG and...it was goood. Bravo friends.
I've been an activist all my life. And always a liberal activist, for the simple reason that it is on the liberal left that you find the true recognition for the need for fairness in society. I'm not saying equality, because that you can never achieve, because equality is based on such complex criteria. But fairness is another issue.
Just finished Misha Glenny's terrific book, Nemesis. Now published UK/US. With Brazil Olympics about to start this is another face of Rio.
Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.
I LOVE HARDWARE STORES.
I've been in politics all my life. In 1945, I committed my first act of civil disobedience during the election campaign for the first post-World War II general election, when the Labour Party, to everyone's amazement, ousted the Conservatives. I refused to obey the instructions of a policeman, and as a result, almost got a belt around the ear, because those were the days when policemen could hit children and nobody cared, they thought it was probably good for them.
Refugees are not ‘other’. They are you and me.
We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.
Increasingly concerned US media coverage of Thursday's referendum. Anxiety about an 'exit' vote impact on US/UK trade - "Seriously harmful".
I made a promise to myself that I would try to introduce something unexpected in every single episode of the series. It was largely to amuse myself as much as anything. I didn't ever want the audience to feel that they knew everything.
I came...but everyone had gone to lunch.
Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
Does that include when I'm sitting in a van on a Louisiana highway in 94 degrees, waiting for "Action"?
An obsession might be a little strong a term, but it has now become one of the most significant aspects of my life, but most importantly of my career, because it has changed the public's perception of who Patrick Stewart is.
I narrated the doc, Journey To Space. A tribute to our space pioneers and an exploration of what's next...Mars?
I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
It’s all about status and in Hollywood, there is nothing else. #BluntTalk
I was just excited by the whole prospect of working in a television series in Hollywood. I had never anticipated that as an actor I would ever end up here. It may be some sort of fantasy I'd thought about from time to time, but it was completely unrealistic.
Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye...
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
Yes, the food! Climate, the architecture, the landscape and...the people. I was on guard but my defenses melted.
You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.
Four days free I drove north up the West Bank of the river, now returning on the East. Plantations, history, levees, sadness. The best time.
The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
I know, I know that's Po' Boy.
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
Thank you everyone! Sorry if I didn't answer your question. Let me know what you think after you see the film. Bye for now!
It has really taken us by surprise to what extent people have enjoyed it. I get a great deal of satisfaction from using it for societal issues and concerns that I am involved with, but there’s also been this element of playfulness, which has opened up a new avenue of communication, which I am enjoying very much indeed.
Nightmares guaranteed, but it is only a movie.
I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
I did. It comes back when I talk to my brother on the phone, e.g. Atalakinaht - meaning Are you coming out to play?
I’ve always believed that it is not possible to be in the world and not be political.
That's a compliment! And at breakfast this morning when I finished all the marmalade.
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
Thank you. Sometimes an actor has to dig deep into his own dark corners.
Talent has always been the sexiest thing to me. I have missed out on innumerable, shall I call them, ‘romantic opportunities’ because the other person involved wasn’t very good at what they did.
Macbeth. So complex, challenging and beautiful.
I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
Yes, two. 1. A biography of Vincent Van Gogh by Naifeh & Smith 2. The Secret Footballer's Guide To The Modern Game.
The thing about Star Trek is that you're never dead, really. There's always a way of bringing somebody back to life. It would be fun. But I think we've all hung up our space suits for the last time.
When I closed the script for the first time, I was already sold and ready to commit.
As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
You heard it here first: parasols are making a comeback! Sunny day shooting on location for #BluntTalk.
I think that for the moment, at least, we are as good as it gets. And the good, the potential good in us is still to be explored...so that we can become better human beings to ourselves as well as to others. And I sometimes feel we’re only at the threshold of those discoveries.
Just learned that the winner of The Masters, Danny Willett is a Yorkshire man. Eee lad, thas done all reet.
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
The Republican Debate on TV - fascinating. But where was the 'Debate'? I have seen bar room brawls that more fitted the term. How sad.
I’d been given a voice that I didn’t know was available to me, and it was to speak seriously and with a proper level of involvement on issues of inequality and unfairness.
Who can have watched tonight's Republican debate and not have despaired that these guys are the cream, the elite of the Republican Party.
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men. It’s in our hands to stop violence against women.
As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.
If someone says ‘Give me one word of advice,’ I say ‘be fearless.’ And knowing without any shadow of a doubt that what they have to give—who they are—is totally unique and not shared by anybody else. And to believe in that uniqueness. It took me decades before I developed courage as an actor.
I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
I think it was when I began to find out that this actor that I had admired from afar for so long had so many things in common with me—background, interests, passion about Shakespeare, passion about being on stage in front of live audiences.
During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.
No, I don’t miss playing him. I loved that character. I admired him—that was one of the nice things about being him.
Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
Being cast as Jean-Luc Picard was the most significant thing that ever happened to me because there wasn’t an area of my life that it didn’t touch, mostly for the better.
For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
Is it enough, asks, to have written King Lear and Hamlet, Twelfth Night and the sonnets? The answer is unequivocally clear: how you live is as important as what you do. That’s how it has seemed to me all my life.
We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
Well, I was born in 1940. My father was serving in the army, but when the war was over we went away for a day to the seaside. My father popped into a store, and when he came out, he told me to close my eyes. He put something in my hand that felt so weird, I snatched my hand away. I looked down, and on the sidewalk was this yellowy-pinky furry-looking fruit. It was a peach! It was the most exotic taste I’d ever experienced.
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
A couple of years ago, I was asked, ‘How would you like to be remembered?' And my answer was ‘That I was very funny.
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, 'She must have provoked him,' or, 'Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.' They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.
I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.
Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.
One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.
I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.
Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.
What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people don't accept your authority then you don't have it. Perhaps the critical thing to being a convincing figure of authority is actually not to try too hard.
And from the first moment that I ever walked on stage in front of a darkened auditorium with a couple of hundred people sitting there, I was never afraid, I was never fearful, I didn't suffer from stage fright, because I felt so safe on that stage. I wasn't Patrick Stewart, I wasn't in the environment that frightened me, I was pretending to be someone else, and I liked the other people I pretended to be. So I felt nothing but security for being on stage. And I think that's what drew me to this strange job of playing make-believe.
I've been picking apples in the autumn since before it was cool to post about it on Instagram.
I began directing episodes, which was a great light every couple of months. We never short-changed our audience, but it became something that you had to work at rather than something that was a pleasure.
If you love movies and curious how a part of Hollywood works, read pal Mike Westmore's fascinating book: Makeup Man from Rocky to Star Trek.
Violence against women is learned. Each of us must examine - and change - the way in which our own behavior might contribute to, enable, ignore or excuse all such forms of violence. I promise to do so, and to invite other me and allies to do the same.
My son's sartorial clout is something to be reckoned with.
The studio have always claimed that the ship is the star of the show, especially when they're renegotiating contracts.
I always knew you were authentic sonshine! The Stewart brand is strong.
Violence against women is the single greatest human rights violation of our generation.
Trump’s new Muslim ban is just as discriminatory and bad.
I became a better listener than I ever had been as a result of playing Jean Luc Picard because it was one of the things that he does terrifically well.
This was so much fun that 10 minutes in I forgot we were on camera...airs tonight in US on BBC America.
As a child, I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs. Stewart, you must've done something to provoke him.' 'Mrs. Stewart, it takes two to make an argument.' Wrong. Wrong! My mother did nothing to provoke that - and even if she had, violence is never ever a choice that a man should make. Ever.
His NSA has resigned and his first piece of policy is ruled unconstitutional. Slippery slope!And soon this charlatan will be on it.
Creating a believable world on the ship was very important, and technically they got better and better and better at showing the ship too.
Had the worst sleep of my life last night. But I was sleeping less than 300 yds from where Donald Trump sleeps. Could there be a connection?
I like things that are funny - in everyday conversation, in incidents that you see, in watching TV or watching film. Comedy has always had an impact on my life.
Seen from the train: a sign on the edge of a cemetery, Express Freight. That's how I want to go.
Whenever the lion fish in the fish tank in the captain's ready room died it was always a sad moment.
First time back in continental Europe since Brexit. I was once so proud to be part of the Union. Now embarrassed to be British.
This is a call to action—not an action that will make things better in six months’ time or a year’s time, but action that might save someone’s life and someone’s future this afternoon, tonight, tomorrow morning.
I found this morning's press conference profoundly disturbing.
There are several books that I have-the Physics of Star Trek, Star Trek and Business, there are manuals on command style and countless scholarly papers that have been written about the significance of Next Generation.
I'm disappointed that Blunt Talk is cancelled. Walter's voice is silenced. I loved him - but more I loved all my fellow actors and creators.
So far as education is concerned, it has had a significant impact on a lot of young people who turn to science as a much more exciting and interesting study than they otherwise might have found, entirely as a result of becoming involved with Star Trek.
Kirk Douglas was 100 years old yesterday. Honored to know him when I lived in LA. Watch Ace in the Hole, Detective Story, Lust for Life.
The truth of the matter is, all of those guys on Star Trek: The Next Generation actually want to be me. These impersonations they do are just some way of trying to feel what it must be like to be me. And I understand that! Because it feels really good to be Patrick Stewart!
Hi, fellow Guardian readers. Question: when did the main cartoon last make you laugh? Smile? Or even understand what the hell it was about?
At 12 years old in the dangerous world that I was in, with a very difficult home life, I found the stage was the safest place to be. It was predetermined and predictable - and furthermore you got to be someone else. All the problems only began when you left the building.
What I am sipping now: champagne with pamplemousse liqueur.
Having played many roles of scientific intellect I do have an empathy for that world. It's been hard on me because flying the Enterprise for seven years in Star Trek and sitting in Cerebro in X-men has led people to believe that I know what I'm talking about. But I'm still trying to work out how to operate the air conditioning unit on my car.
I played Newcastle many times over many years. I love the city, but most of all, I love the people.
All I ever wanted to do was be on stage, if possible acting in Shakespeare. And to be as good as I could be.There was nowhere else I wanted to go. TV was of no interest. Films were just a fantasy. Yet I was convinced that when we found ourselves in that world of fantasy and sci-fi, it was our classical background and our training that equipped us for that larger-than life-world.
Doing the things I never got a chance to do in Patrick Stewart's life.
Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.
Yes! The right to vote is a privilege in all democracies. Please play your part.
Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects considered to be a male preserve. Women can talk about sexuality and their bodily functions and it can be very, very entertaining. It's changed the impact of comedy acting.
Best of all, I like the good bad guys.
During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both of whom asked my permission to sit on the captain's chair.
Knowing for certain that "where there is muck, there is brass."
I've been a witness to unfairness in society all my life. To the conditions under which my mother worked all her life, working in an industrial weaving shed in the north of England. And it has been this feature of unfairness that has motivated me in all of my political thinking.
Everything by Mozart, Stephen Sondheim, Paul Simon, Randy Newman and Gillian Welch.
It wasn't until the first season ended that I went to my first Star Trek convention. It was in Denver. There were two and a half thousand people there.
Absolutely...stirred, never shaken.
Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?
Thank you, but not before and afterwards, I always have plans.
I don't do impersonations. I can do a wounded elephant! I can do a really good cow! And because of the amount of time I spent in North Yorkshire, I do a variety of sheep. All of which I will be happy to roll out for you!
I hope it will be released the day after tomorrow.
I know it feels like two steps forward and one step back, but we are making progress. In my lifetime, I have lived through one World War, I have lived through the end of Apartheid in South Africa, the pulling down of the Berlin Wall. I have experienced what I never thought I would have experienced, which is a pretty workable peace in Northern Ireland, and I experienced a unified Europe - until the Conservative government got its hands on the idea that in order to appease a few back-benchers they would hold a referendum, what a disastrous idea.
I can say modestly that I make a superb gin martini.
I've often reflected on this in the past weeks as I've been following the presidential campaign: Very often, I thought it would have been great for both of these guys to sit down and be force-fed a couple of dozen episodes of Star Trek.
Lots of people who are not theater majors end up homeless. We are all lucky to have a roof over our heads. Good luck.
When I'm meant to be standing in the wings, the only way to go is the ladies' toilets. It's the only time I've ever acted in the toilets.
Pablo Picasso. And I'll be happy to take a painting in payment.
It still frightens me a little bit to think that so much of my life was totally devoted to Star Trek and almost nothing else.
The underlying and not so underlying racism in all of our Western societies.
It's not just an exclamation, but it's a rejection of everything to do with Christmas, with the spirit of Christmas, with gift-giving, with generosity.
Well, the funny roles have only come about recently. I now find myself thinking about laughter more than I do about tears.
The only still center of my life is Macbeth. To go back to doing this bloody, crazed, insane mass-murderer is a huge relief after trying to get my cell phone replaced.
The time has never been better for beer drinkers than now. New beer parlors open all the time in my small Brooklyn community. I love it.
I saw Waiting for Godot when I was 17 in rep with a then unknown actor called Peter O'Toole playing Vladimir. I remember leaving the theatre promising myself that one day I would have a go at this play and then pretty much forgot it for 50 years.
Every day. There are aspects of Walter that come out of my own life.
I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.
Easy explanation: I am a fully paid up member of Cute Anonymous.
Laurence Olivier said if you have ambition to be a serious classical actor, you must be as fit as an athlete. For me, the breakthrough was going to live in California. I exercised. I drank less. It was one of the things about California that had a positive impact on me.
My green grocer after he had seen me in a local pantomime. However, a critic wrote that my performance was "barely adequate."
I had come to the point when I realized it was unlikely that my film career was going to move beyond a certain level of role. And I was - because I had graphic instances of it - handicapped by the success of Star Trek. A director would say, 'I don't want Jean-Luc Picard in my movie' - and this was compounded by X-Men as well.
Cleopatra. And I hope Walter's appearance in drag this season of #BluntTalk may give people ideas.
There's no such thing as "just a domestic".
I live in an area where foxes are a part of the wild landscape, and a ban on fox hunting matters to me.
Tom Hanks knows the name of all the episodes.
I'm 100% fine, but found myself in St Mary's Paddington A+E late last night and have only praise for UK's NHS. Doctors, nurses, everyone.
I do what I do in my mother's name because I couldn't help her then. Now I can.
Hands done my all-time favourite Trekkie. Thank you Madame Secretary!
I think I came back from America a funnier and nicer person than I went.
In this day and age why are there still events in the Olympic Games which depend on men and women hurting each other as much as possible?
We've made too many compromises already; too many retreats. They invade our space and we fall back. They assimilate entire worlds and we fall back. Not again! The line must be drawn here! This far, no further! And I will make them pay for what they've done!
Wensleydale, North Yorkshire - bliss. And a lovely Hotel - The Stone House, Hawes.
One day, out of irritation, I said, you know all of those years with the Royal Shakespeare Company, all those years of playing kings and princes and speaking black verse, and bestriding the landscape of England was nothing but a preparation for sitting in the captain's chair of the Enterprise.
Confess: had an intense week on Pinter's No Man's Land. Came home, reached for remote and there was ST:TNG and...it was goood. Bravo friends.
I've been an activist all my life. And always a liberal activist, for the simple reason that it is on the liberal left that you find the true recognition for the need for fairness in society. I'm not saying equality, because that you can never achieve, because equality is based on such complex criteria. But fairness is another issue.
Just finished Misha Glenny's terrific book, Nemesis. Now published UK/US. With Brazil Olympics about to start this is another face of Rio.
Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare's world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend - someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.
I LOVE HARDWARE STORES.
I've been in politics all my life. In 1945, I committed my first act of civil disobedience during the election campaign for the first post-World War II general election, when the Labour Party, to everyone's amazement, ousted the Conservatives. I refused to obey the instructions of a policeman, and as a result, almost got a belt around the ear, because those were the days when policemen could hit children and nobody cared, they thought it was probably good for them.
Refugees are not ‘other’. They are you and me.
We had some very distinguished fans: I know one chancellor of a major university who used to schedule his meetings around Star Trek. We were thrilled to discover that Frank Sinatra was a big fan.
Increasingly concerned US media coverage of Thursday's referendum. Anxiety about an 'exit' vote impact on US/UK trade - "Seriously harmful".
I made a promise to myself that I would try to introduce something unexpected in every single episode of the series. It was largely to amuse myself as much as anything. I didn't ever want the audience to feel that they knew everything.
I came...but everyone had gone to lunch.
Wouldn't it be grand if we thought that theater could have that impact on the political life of a country?
Does that include when I'm sitting in a van on a Louisiana highway in 94 degrees, waiting for "Action"?
An obsession might be a little strong a term, but it has now become one of the most significant aspects of my life, but most importantly of my career, because it has changed the public's perception of who Patrick Stewart is.
I narrated the doc, Journey To Space. A tribute to our space pioneers and an exploration of what's next...Mars?
I've met actors where you think, if only you could just clean up your act and get it together, people would want to work with you. Some people are so difficult, it's just not worth working with them.
It’s all about status and in Hollywood, there is nothing else. #BluntTalk
I was just excited by the whole prospect of working in a television series in Hollywood. I had never anticipated that as an actor I would ever end up here. It may be some sort of fantasy I'd thought about from time to time, but it was completely unrealistic.
Good old boys drinking whiskey and rye...
But as I grew up as a child, falling in love with the theater and Shakespeare, my heroes were Sir Laurence Olivier and Sir John Gielgud.
Yes, the food! Climate, the architecture, the landscape and...the people. I was on guard but my defenses melted.
You get all of your neuroses worked out on stage. I haven't actually played very many nice characters, certainly not on stage. It's not a quality that attracts me.
Four days free I drove north up the West Bank of the river, now returning on the East. Plantations, history, levees, sadness. The best time.
The knights of the theater represented to me not only the pinnacle of the profession but the esteem in which the profession was held. To find myself, to my astonishment, in that company is the grandest thing that has professionally happened to me.
I know, I know that's Po' Boy.
I never had teenage years. I guess because I was seen to be more adult than anybody around me.
Thank you everyone! Sorry if I didn't answer your question. Let me know what you think after you see the film. Bye for now!
It has really taken us by surprise to what extent people have enjoyed it. I get a great deal of satisfaction from using it for societal issues and concerns that I am involved with, but there’s also been this element of playfulness, which has opened up a new avenue of communication, which I am enjoying very much indeed.
Nightmares guaranteed, but it is only a movie.
I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.
I did. It comes back when I talk to my brother on the phone, e.g. Atalakinaht - meaning Are you coming out to play?
I’ve always believed that it is not possible to be in the world and not be political.
That's a compliment! And at breakfast this morning when I finished all the marmalade.
It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.
Thank you. Sometimes an actor has to dig deep into his own dark corners.
Talent has always been the sexiest thing to me. I have missed out on innumerable, shall I call them, ‘romantic opportunities’ because the other person involved wasn’t very good at what they did.
Macbeth. So complex, challenging and beautiful.
I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
Yes, two. 1. A biography of Vincent Van Gogh by Naifeh & Smith 2. The Secret Footballer's Guide To The Modern Game.
The thing about Star Trek is that you're never dead, really. There's always a way of bringing somebody back to life. It would be fun. But I think we've all hung up our space suits for the last time.
When I closed the script for the first time, I was already sold and ready to commit.
As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around.
You heard it here first: parasols are making a comeback! Sunny day shooting on location for #BluntTalk.
I think that for the moment, at least, we are as good as it gets. And the good, the potential good in us is still to be explored...so that we can become better human beings to ourselves as well as to others. And I sometimes feel we’re only at the threshold of those discoveries.
Just learned that the winner of The Masters, Danny Willett is a Yorkshire man. Eee lad, thas done all reet.
I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.
The Republican Debate on TV - fascinating. But where was the 'Debate'? I have seen bar room brawls that more fitted the term. How sad.
I’d been given a voice that I didn’t know was available to me, and it was to speak seriously and with a proper level of involvement on issues of inequality and unfairness.
Who can have watched tonight's Republican debate and not have despaired that these guys are the cream, the elite of the Republican Party.
I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.
The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men. It’s in our hands to stop violence against women.
As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.
If someone says ‘Give me one word of advice,’ I say ‘be fearless.’ And knowing without any shadow of a doubt that what they have to give—who they are—is totally unique and not shared by anybody else. And to believe in that uniqueness. It took me decades before I developed courage as an actor.
I am told that there have been over the years a number of experiments taking place in places like Massachusetts Institute of Technology that have been entirely based on concepts raised by Star Trek.
I think it was when I began to find out that this actor that I had admired from afar for so long had so many things in common with me—background, interests, passion about Shakespeare, passion about being on stage in front of live audiences.
During the course of the seven years I played scenes with an oil slick, I played a scene with a grain of rice. Sometimes with indescribable creatures. I remember having a conversation with something which was simply a smell, that's all. It was part of our job.
No, I don’t miss playing him. I loved that character. I admired him—that was one of the nice things about being him.
Last Wednesday, I stupidly dropped my iPhone in the bath, and my life has sort of spiraled almost out of control.
Being cast as Jean-Luc Picard was the most significant thing that ever happened to me because there wasn’t an area of my life that it didn’t touch, mostly for the better.
For seven years I did very little theatre, and I have to make up some time.
Is it enough, asks, to have written King Lear and Hamlet, Twelfth Night and the sonnets? The answer is unequivocally clear: how you live is as important as what you do. That’s how it has seemed to me all my life.
We've heard from many teachers that they used episodes of Star Trek and concepts of Star Trek in their science classrooms in order to engage the students.
Well, I was born in 1940. My father was serving in the army, but when the war was over we went away for a day to the seaside. My father popped into a store, and when he came out, he told me to close my eyes. He put something in my hand that felt so weird, I snatched my hand away. I looked down, and on the sidewalk was this yellowy-pinky furry-looking fruit. It was a peach! It was the most exotic taste I’d ever experienced.
I came to feel very, very sentimental about those sets, which is ludicrous, because they represent everything which is transitory and insubstantial. It's absurd that one should feel sentimental about timber and canvas.
A couple of years ago, I was asked, ‘How would you like to be remembered?' And my answer was ‘That I was very funny.
William Shatner has one style. We have completely contrasting personalities. We're very good friends. I adore him, but we're very different people, so they were smart enough to write characters that reflected that.
I heard police or ambulancemen, standing in our house, say, 'She must have provoked him,' or, 'Mrs Stewart, it takes two to make a fight.' They had no idea. The truth is my mother did nothing to deserve the violence she endured. She did not provoke my father, and even if she had, violence is an unacceptable way of dealing with conflict. Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.
I certainly wanted to maintain some sense of mystery about Picard and that's why we never allowed certain situations to fully evolve, like the relationship between Picard and Beverly Crusher.
Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.
One of the things that I've come to understand is that as I talk a lot about Picard, what I find is that I'm talking about myself.
I always have been optimistic about humanity's future. Always. Even at the most dismaying of times.
Encouraging people to believe in it was the most important thing of all. It's one of the reasons I was always uncomfortable whenever film crews came on the set to shoot things. I didn't want our make-believe to be exposed.
What identifies an individual as a king is how other people behave towards him. All authority is assumed, and if other people don't accept your authority then you don't have it. Perhaps the critical thing to being a convincing figure of authority is actually not to try too hard.
Mittwoch, 11. Juli 2018
Happy Birthday Greg Grunberg!
It doesn't matter what religion you are. If you come to Israel you'll find history that will blow you away...Everywhere we go we end each day saying, 'That was the most incredible day we've ever had.' It's been quite a trip.
I love Twitter. Twitter for me is twofold. I can use it to get out important information about charity stuff and where I'm going to be, and I can get feedback from the audience which I love.
I always try to find something or some way of delivering the lines or playing the scene that you wouldn't normally expect. And I know that sounds weird, because it's not like I surprise people with shocking performances. But in an interesting way... Just being real and as interesting as possible. Usually, that stuff is the spine of the show. It's the humor that you need in a scene, in an intense moment or something.
I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend in the world, we were living together. He was writing, and I was trying writing; I wasn't getting paid for it like he was, but I always had the acting bug.
Nothing is a conscious choice as an actor at the begining stage. There's so little that's a conscious choice even now. The offers, as absolutely limited as they are even at this point in my career, I have to really think about. I have a family, and it's a job. There are times when you take work that you normally may not dig. If someone says, "I want to meet with you," and they're about a hundred miles away, just go. You never know what might come out of it, and if you can make it, make it to the meeting.
I met my wife, I had no money, I had nothing, and I started my family without really, my career was nowhere, but I had these other businesses, I had these things I was doing to be able to afford a small home.
To me, is the way to make the most impact - let the actions speak louder than the words.
I opened up a frozen-yogurt business out of college. I didn't finish college; I went halfway, and then I worked for Joel Silver, the producer, as a driver for a year.
If I could have any power in the world, it would be super-metabolism. I would love to eat anything and not gain weight! That would be a great power. I would have an intravenous Guinness with me, everywhere I went! But I wouldn't want to know what my wife is thinking. It's a difficult power, yeah.
I love the iPhone - I'm a huge Mac and Apple fan.
I'm a boring guy - I have a wife and three kids. I'm not like Mr. Controversy.
With Yowza there are no games, you don't have to check in or become the mayor or go back home and redeem anything online - you will always press one button, show the coupon at the register and save money. It's as simple as that.
My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who I am.
I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy; I played a character on 'Felicity' that was modeled after me, actually.
I never root for a failure. I learned that when we were on 'Felicity.' There was a show that failed on the lot, and suddenly all of this food showed up on our set. I was, like, 'What is this?' And they said, 'Oh, they cancelled this other show right before their lunch.' And I said, 'Throw that food away! We don't want to touch that food! There's no way I'm eating it!' So I never root for anybody, because it could happen to you in two seconds.
I love Twitter. Twitter for me is twofold. I can use it to get out important information about charity stuff and where I'm going to be, and I can get feedback from the audience which I love.
I always try to find something or some way of delivering the lines or playing the scene that you wouldn't normally expect. And I know that sounds weird, because it's not like I surprise people with shocking performances. But in an interesting way... Just being real and as interesting as possible. Usually, that stuff is the spine of the show. It's the humor that you need in a scene, in an intense moment or something.
I was, throughout school, in the theater program. Through elementary school, junior high, high school, and then J.J. Abrams, my closest friend in the world, we were living together. He was writing, and I was trying writing; I wasn't getting paid for it like he was, but I always had the acting bug.
Nothing is a conscious choice as an actor at the begining stage. There's so little that's a conscious choice even now. The offers, as absolutely limited as they are even at this point in my career, I have to really think about. I have a family, and it's a job. There are times when you take work that you normally may not dig. If someone says, "I want to meet with you," and they're about a hundred miles away, just go. You never know what might come out of it, and if you can make it, make it to the meeting.
I met my wife, I had no money, I had nothing, and I started my family without really, my career was nowhere, but I had these other businesses, I had these things I was doing to be able to afford a small home.
To me, is the way to make the most impact - let the actions speak louder than the words.
I opened up a frozen-yogurt business out of college. I didn't finish college; I went halfway, and then I worked for Joel Silver, the producer, as a driver for a year.
If I could have any power in the world, it would be super-metabolism. I would love to eat anything and not gain weight! That would be a great power. I would have an intravenous Guinness with me, everywhere I went! But I wouldn't want to know what my wife is thinking. It's a difficult power, yeah.
I love the iPhone - I'm a huge Mac and Apple fan.
I'm a boring guy - I have a wife and three kids. I'm not like Mr. Controversy.
With Yowza there are no games, you don't have to check in or become the mayor or go back home and redeem anything online - you will always press one button, show the coupon at the register and save money. It's as simple as that.
My limitations are - I'm not Meryl Streep. I'm not playing anything in a foreign language, or anything too far from who I am.
I have always been business minded, always been sorta an entrepreneurial guy; I played a character on 'Felicity' that was modeled after me, actually.
I never root for a failure. I learned that when we were on 'Felicity.' There was a show that failed on the lot, and suddenly all of this food showed up on our set. I was, like, 'What is this?' And they said, 'Oh, they cancelled this other show right before their lunch.' And I said, 'Throw that food away! We don't want to touch that food! There's no way I'm eating it!' So I never root for anybody, because it could happen to you in two seconds.
Donnerstag, 5. Juli 2018
Happy Birthday Ron D. Moore!
Some of the storytelling we did in 'Battlestar Galactica,' to graft that onto 'Star Trek,' it would have required changing the entire format of the show and, really, a different taste of the show.
With 'Outlander,' definitely the book fans were at the door, ready to go, as soon as we started. But it felt like it kind of crossed over into more of a general audience rapidly. That did surprise me - I thought it would take longer for general audiences to come around.
The technobabble in 'Trek' just got completely out of control.
What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.
The last thing I wanted to do was 'Battlestar Galactica.' I thought, 'I've done sci-fi. I did 'Blade Runner.' I don't have to do anything more.'
Essentially, you know, one of the great advantages of working in science fiction is it does give you an opportunity to talk about interesting and somewhat controversial themes and social issues and in a way that doesn't really threaten the audience, because I'm not challenging their particular points of view.
The original 'Star Trek' is very much a product of the '60s - the new frontier, optimism, the idea of bringing democracy to the galaxy. It's still a timeless show, but it's very much a show made in the 1960s.
I'd argue that in the last few decades in America, when people are asked what they hope the future will look like, they still turn to 'Star Trek.' They hope we put aside our differences and come together as humanity, that we rise above war, poverty, racism, and other problems that have beset us.
I think I started watching 'Trek' in the mid-'70s when I was in elementary school, and I was just into space. Somewhere along the way, I started realizing there were really interesting ideas in the show.
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.'
What does it mean to be human, and what is at the human heart, and is there a soul, or is that all there is? Can an artificial being be intelligent? Is 'intelligent' the definition of humanity, or is it something deeper?
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.
There are some good space battles in some of the later series, but that wasn't why you were tuning in every week. You were tuning in every week because Spock was a fascinating character. Because his friendship with Kirk was profound and really unusual.
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.
This is my philosophy since 'Star Trek' and 'Battlestar': You have to be willing to have fandom hate what you're doing or love it and not care either way on a certain level, because you cannot become a slave to their emotion or their vote. It's not a democracy, as I'm always fond of saying.
I have the distinct pleasure of doing exactly what I want to do and get paid for it. It's a joy.
'Generations,' we slaved over for a year; we worked it over and over and over again, and in the end, it just fell short.
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.
There was definitely a sense that 'The Next Generation' was the 'Star Trek' stepchild that nobody liked.
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.
Looking back now on our workload, I just shake my head at our pace. 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' was my first series, so I didn't know anything about that when I started. I just assumed it was normal to make 26 episodes a year on a seven-day shooting schedule.
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 is not a new hopeful, optimistic vision of the future that I am currently aware of. Certainly, not one that has penetrated pop culture awareness in the way 'Star Trek' has.
I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in.
I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists that is different from your day-to-day reality.
The danger of serialization is that you almost get into a monotone - where they all have the same beat and pace, and it's all one long thing - and when you can kind of do this interesting mixture of episodic and serialization, you can kind of take the audience on a more interesting journey.
Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.
Sometimes you just have to be willing to delegate and not feel like you're the only one with the answer.
I started my career at 'Star Trek,' and that had a huge, very vocal fan base.
I guess, at the beginning of any project, I always have the same hope, which is that it's going to be wildly successful and critically acclaimed, and it'll be a major thing.
I like interacting with fans, and I like hearing what they say, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt.
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.
It's been an old saw in science fiction for a long time, since 'Frankenstein,' that we're going to create life that's going to turn on us.
'Battletar' took a while to kinda permeate out into pop culture generally. It hit first with the science-fiction fan community, then the critics, and then it kind of went to the general population.
I really wanted to write the death of Captain Kirk.
With 'Outlander,' definitely the book fans were at the door, ready to go, as soon as we started. But it felt like it kind of crossed over into more of a general audience rapidly. That did surprise me - I thought it would take longer for general audiences to come around.
The technobabble in 'Trek' just got completely out of control.
What got my interested in science fiction was actually the American space program.
The last thing I wanted to do was 'Battlestar Galactica.' I thought, 'I've done sci-fi. I did 'Blade Runner.' I don't have to do anything more.'
Essentially, you know, one of the great advantages of working in science fiction is it does give you an opportunity to talk about interesting and somewhat controversial themes and social issues and in a way that doesn't really threaten the audience, because I'm not challenging their particular points of view.
The original 'Star Trek' is very much a product of the '60s - the new frontier, optimism, the idea of bringing democracy to the galaxy. It's still a timeless show, but it's very much a show made in the 1960s.
I'd argue that in the last few decades in America, when people are asked what they hope the future will look like, they still turn to 'Star Trek.' They hope we put aside our differences and come together as humanity, that we rise above war, poverty, racism, and other problems that have beset us.
I think I started watching 'Trek' in the mid-'70s when I was in elementary school, and I was just into space. Somewhere along the way, I started realizing there were really interesting ideas in the show.
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.'
What does it mean to be human, and what is at the human heart, and is there a soul, or is that all there is? Can an artificial being be intelligent? Is 'intelligent' the definition of humanity, or is it something deeper?
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.
There are some good space battles in some of the later series, but that wasn't why you were tuning in every week. You were tuning in every week because Spock was a fascinating character. Because his friendship with Kirk was profound and really unusual.
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.
This is my philosophy since 'Star Trek' and 'Battlestar': You have to be willing to have fandom hate what you're doing or love it and not care either way on a certain level, because you cannot become a slave to their emotion or their vote. It's not a democracy, as I'm always fond of saying.
I have the distinct pleasure of doing exactly what I want to do and get paid for it. It's a joy.
'Generations,' we slaved over for a year; we worked it over and over and over again, and in the end, it just fell short.
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.
There was definitely a sense that 'The Next Generation' was the 'Star Trek' stepchild that nobody liked.
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.
Looking back now on our workload, I just shake my head at our pace. 'Star Trek: The Next Generation' was my first series, so I didn't know anything about that when I started. I just assumed it was normal to make 26 episodes a year on a seven-day shooting schedule.
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 is not a new hopeful, optimistic vision of the future that I am currently aware of. Certainly, not one that has penetrated pop culture awareness in the way 'Star Trek' has.
I enjoyed directing, and I really found that it was a great new field to try my hand in.
I'm used to something where you have to create an entire world, and I do like that process. I like getting the audience to believe that outside of the frame of your television set, there's a whole real world that exists that is different from your day-to-day reality.
The danger of serialization is that you almost get into a monotone - where they all have the same beat and pace, and it's all one long thing - and when you can kind of do this interesting mixture of episodic and serialization, you can kind of take the audience on a more interesting journey.
Romance classically has tragic underpinnings to it.
Sometimes you just have to be willing to delegate and not feel like you're the only one with the answer.
I started my career at 'Star Trek,' and that had a huge, very vocal fan base.
I guess, at the beginning of any project, I always have the same hope, which is that it's going to be wildly successful and critically acclaimed, and it'll be a major thing.
I like interacting with fans, and I like hearing what they say, but you have to take it all with a grain of salt.
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.
It's been an old saw in science fiction for a long time, since 'Frankenstein,' that we're going to create life that's going to turn on us.
'Battletar' took a while to kinda permeate out into pop culture generally. It hit first with the science-fiction fan community, then the critics, and then it kind of went to the general population.
I really wanted to write the death of Captain Kirk.
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