#om

It's irksome to read about someone I don't recognize. It frightens me. ↗

— William Shatner

#frightens #i #me #read #recognize

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. ↗

— William Shatner

#because #burden #cry #crying #dinner

Nobody could have imagined the phenomenon that 'Star Trek' became. It's still almost impossible to imagine. ↗

— William Shatner

#became #could #imagine #imagined #impossible

Sci-fi films are the epic films of the day because we can no longer put 10,000 extras in the scene - but we can draw thousands of aliens with computers. ↗

— William Shatner

#computers #day #draw #epic #extras

So many dot-com companies were formulated on air. ↗

— William Shatner

#companies #dot-com #formulated #many #were

Spencer Tracy was a man who did very much what I do on a set, and that is, he comes down and he does his job, and then he goes back to his dressing room. ↗

— William Shatner

#comes #did #does #down #dressing

There's a joy and a pain about directing where the dreams you have are becoming concrete but the attention to detail, the need for time is such that it's overwhelming at times, and the stream of responsibility. ↗

— William Shatner

#attention #becoming #concrete #detail #directing

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. ↗

— William Shatner

#composition #doing #drama #ecstasy #film

These people who come to Comic-Con and dress up - all across the country, the rest of the population who doesn't understand are scoffing at them. ↗

— William Shatner

#come #comic-con #country #dress #people

We live in grief for having left the womb, for having left the teat, then school, then home. In my case, it was leaving marriages, and the death of my wife. ↗

— William Shatner

#death #grief #having #home #leaving