I think 'fan' implies somebody who's submissive, sycophantic, in awe of everything you're doing.
The unvarnished truth is that we have spent the last decade funding the machinery of war, and our children have been sacrificed.
Jim Carrey can do anything he wants, right? There are guys like that. I'm not one of those guys, so my career has been cobbled together with what the universe has put in front of me.
That's not a role you prepare for. There's no preparation. You don't have time to prepare for the reading of an audiobook. You do the reading of an audiobook in basically two days' time - an unabridged version, maybe three days.
We have an amazing advantage right now in that we have developed technology that is so sexy, so engaging for kids.
It's definitely true that there are a lot of the devices we used on 'Star Trek,' that came out the imagination of the writers, and the creators that are actually in the world today.
I've always been interested in gadgets and technology and I've always been a reader.
I just got out of the hospital. I was in a speed-reading accident. I hit a bookmark.
I would rather die of passion than of boredom.
There was an exchange between me and Andy Warhol. We met, we liked each other, we appreciated each other. He would come to us for Easter in Marrakech. In September we would meet up in Venice. And every time I went to New York I would spend some time with him at the Factory, where we would have dinner together. He's a man that I admired deeply. He shook up the notion of painting - not as much as Marcel Duchamp had done, but he was part of the same general movement. And then we both admired art deco.
[. . . ] love is much stronger than your fault could ever be.