There’s an ecstasy about doing something really good on film: the composition of a shot, the drama within the shot, the texture… It’s palpable.
Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
I played comedies and dramas.
My kids say if there’s any family dinner that doesn’t result in somebody crying, it’s not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It’s like a family tradition.
I love to evoke the bones and meat and thoughts of characters.
This is my saddest story: In grade school, they would have us open our Valentine’s cards and read them out loud. I always sent cards to myself because nobody else did.
Success is different for everyone; everybody defines it in their own way, and that’s part of what we do in ‘Close Up’, finding what it was each person wanted to achieve and what their willingness to sacrifice for that was.
The ability to breathe the air and drink the water will be what the wars will be about from here on in. And it’s coming with alarming rapidity.
I did a movie in Esperanto.
I’m gonna reveal something to you that’s going to come as a shock: If you’re a stupid young man, you’re usually a stupid old man. Most people, including myself, keep repeating the same mistakes.
We meet aliens every day who have something to give us. They come in the form of people with different opinions.
At 40, I went to bed for three days. I thought my life is over.
I never watched ‘Star Trek.’
My dad was good with actions.
My wife and my three kids and my grandchildren are my life, but my horses and my dogs are everything else.
You need to be silly to be funny.
The essence of paint ball is the fact that when you get hit by a ball full of paint, it hurts just enough to say, ‘Ow, I gotta get out of the way,’ but not enough to say, ‘I quit.’
I’ve never been without a dog. I’ve made trips across the country with a dog.
I envy the people who say, ‘oh, well, I’ve got my name in the golden book and I’m going to be entered into the pearly gates.’
I think making a good film shot is joyful.
When there are tiers of meaning in an ad it intrigues the audience and they look for it again and again.
I find the whole time travel question very unsettling if you take it to its logical extension. I think it might eventually be possible, but then what happens?
Remember – you can’t beam through a force field. So, don’t try it.
Every day I realized I would not be a star.
When I direct and have to look at filmed scenes of myself, I suck.
If you make a fool of yourself, you can do it with dignity, without taking your pants down. And if you do take your pants down, you can still do it with dignity.
My name is William Shatner, and I am Canadian!
Ads need to be little pieces of entertainment.
The political scene is already so turgid, it doesn’t need more of that from me.
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