A Director Is A Choreographer, Both Politically

My Mother Was Born In The City, My Dad Was An Immigrant. Probably From Germany. Could Have Been Austria, Could Have Been Poland. The Borders Were Changing. My Dad Brought Over A Large Family Of Shatners When He Was Very Young. Scraped Together The Money, Got 11 Brothers And Sisters A Passage On The Boat. There's A Lot Of Shatners In Montreal.

Heroes, Classical Heroes Have The Look Of Eagles, Too. They're Looking Beyond The Immediate Problem And Into The Future.

Within Weeks Of Our Premiere, It Became Obvious That Leonard [nimoy] And The Character Of Spock Were Becoming Something Of A National Phenomenon. ... And To Be Unflatteringly Frank, It Bugged Me. ... [then, Gene Roddenberry] Said To Me The Wisest Thing He Could Possibly Have Uttered. He Said, `don't Ever Fear Having Good And Popular People Around You, Because They Can Only Enhance Your Own Performance. The More You Can Play To These People, The Better The Show.'

Things People Say Strike Me As Amusing, And I Am Prone To Saying Out Loud What Everybody's Thinking.

I Know Very Little About The Viral, Electronic World, But I Use Twitter To Communicate Not Only Information That I Think Some Of The Fans Want To Hear About But Also Ideas.