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" All the times I've been lucky enough to be a part of a show that's actually gotten on the air, it's always that same mixture of excitement and utter fear. "
Lucky
Always
Fear
" As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. "
Star
More
Kid
" I have no style. There are certain people who just have a visual sense that defines their work. You could probably watch 30 seconds of anything they do and you'll know exactly who directed it. I don't have that skill. "
Style
People
Skill
" I love recording music. "
I Love
Recording
Music
" I love the idea of anthropomorphizing machines. I love the idea of taking technology and giving it a personality. "
Personality
Love
Giving
" I'm a fast writer. "
Writer
Fast
" I think that even if you're wondering if two characters are ever going to kiss, drawing out the inevitability is part of the fun. Whatever the genre happens to be. "
Fun
Two
Drawing
" I think you have a passion and an obsession for something when it's not necessarily ubiquitous. "
You
I Think
Obsession
" I try to push ideas away, and the ones that will not leave me alone are the ones that ultimately end up happening. "
Ideas
End
Alone
" I was never really a comic-book fanatic. "
Never
Fanatic
Really
" I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. "
Good
Really
People
" One of my favorite things about 'Star Trek' wasn't just the overt banter but the humor in that show about the relationships between the main characters and their reactions to the situations they would face; there was a lot of comedy in that show without ever breaking its reality. "
Reality
Comedy
Humor
" People never know what they want, though everyone says they do. If they did, nobody would ever be surprised. "
People
Nobody
Know
" Robotics are beginning to cross that line from absolutely primitive motion to motion that resembles animal or human behavior. "
Animal
Behavior
Human
" The ability of a television series to make adjustments is something you've got to take advantage of. "
Ability
Take Advantage
Television
" The goal is always to do B material in an A fashion. "
Fashion
Always
Material
" We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. "
Live
Age
Entitlement
" What I'm still grappling with and learning how to do is to be looking and thinking cinematically, having come from television. "
Looking
Thinking
Television
" What's a bigger mystery box than a movie theater? You go to the theater, you're just so excited to see anything - the moment the lights go down is often the best part. "
Lights
Down
Best
" Whenever I've directed something, there's this feeling of demand and focus that I like. "
Focus
Feeling
Demand
" When I was a kid, it was a huge insult to be a geek. Now it's a point of pride in a weird way. "
Way
Pride
Weird
" When I was a little kid - and even still - I loved magic tricks. When I saw how movies got made - at least had a glimpse when I went on the Universal Studios tour with my grandfather, I remember feeling like this was another means by which I could do magic. "
Feeling
Magic
Loved
" When you work on something that combines both the spectacular and the relatable, the hyperreal and the real, it suddenly can become supernatural. The hypothetical and the theoretical can become literal. "
Work
You
Become
" With three kids you are just trying to survive. You can't be fastidious. "
Three
You
Kids
" You never want to have that ticking clock and know that you had all this time and didn't use it. "
Time
Never
Know
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