Money has never been my primary goal.

My goal has always been to be a working actor.

Hollywood has known this for quite a while: Cable is the place to go because they truly have a supportive network and they want to do things that cannot be seen on broadcast. That stimulates the writer-producer. Cable is king.

Any kind of civil rights oppression is wrong.

I started making art during high school but thought I lacked the talent to become a true artist.

I think if more people actually pursued what they loved, we'd have a lot more innovation and creativity.

Being a writer, writing for a living, is one long persistence game. Everyone wants you to quit. Quite often, you want to quit. You get kicked down. You come up swinging. You keep going. Either you are committed to it, or you aren't.

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.