The whole thing was reported entirely without our cooperation. People learned that I was producing a 'Star Trek' film, that read more

The whole thing was reported entirely without our cooperation. People learned that I was producing a 'Star Trek' film, that I had an option to direct it, they hear rumors of what the thing was going to be and ran with a story that is not entirely accurate.

Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things read more

Say Jessica was working on a math problem ... I would always try to illustrate the solution by drawing things out. And she just started to copy what I was doing. Of course, as she got better at it, I would show her the 3-d aspect of shading or how to render perspective — and she could just do it. She would just pick it up.

Risk to civilian life has been undermined and ignored by both parties in the name of military necessity. They have read more

Risk to civilian life has been undermined and ignored by both parties in the name of military necessity. They have to be watchful of the potential harm their negligence can do to the civilians.

The two other parts [Moore] played from the '50s are so different from Evelyn Ryan. The character she played in read more

The two other parts [Moore] played from the '50s are so different from Evelyn Ryan. The character she played in The Hours was a woman who fled the oppression of her home. Evelyn Ryan stayed. She chose to brave it out, because she was determined to make sure every one of those 10 kids of hers made it out of that house intact. It's heroic.

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all read more

It is futile for an artist to try to create an environment because you have an environment around you all the time. Any living organism has an environment.

After it's all said and done, we usually have a couple thousand left, and we donate that to the Anacortes read more

After it's all said and done, we usually have a couple thousand left, and we donate that to the Anacortes Boys and Girls Club.

They are doing very well, making good money, more money than the rooms.

They are doing very well, making good money, more money than the rooms.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence their importance.

Poetry is simply the most beautiful, impressive and widely effective mode of saying things, and hence their importance.

[it's strange to think of yourself as an only child and then suddenly find yourself with three siblings. Does Adie read more

[it's strange to think of yourself as an only child and then suddenly find yourself with three siblings. Does Adie ever feel like an outsider when the rest share a history that she doesn't?] Curiously, I went to a wedding quite near the start, and when we got to the church this charming man came up and said, 'Bride or groom?' ... Groom! You're with the groom!