1984 - Leonard Nimoy equates leisure, labor

Leonard is getting a masters degree of education from Antioch College. Shortly ISO, film and TV roles are mentioned, so are the poetry and photography, lectures and directing and the question whether he is a workaholic arises.
"I don't know about workaholic. Workaholic makes it sound like I'm doing something wrong. I do enjoy what I do. I like to keep doing it. I'm one of the lucky people who is doing what he wants to do to make a living."

Success of Star Trek:
"It's a show that touches the imagination. I think it is very positive about the future. Personally, I don't like the doomsday kind of science fiction. You know the kind of stories where the third world war has taken place and everybody has been wiped out except the six people living in the cave somewhere who have to decide what to do next. I find this stuff depressing, and I don't consider it good entertainment. Star Trek is quite opposite. It says that we're still there in the 23rd century and mankind has survived, established interplanetary relationships..."

Leonard was asked what he would like to be remembered for most.
"It's a very flattering question because you're assuming that I'm going to be remembered. If that's the case it doesn't really matter to me whether I'm remembered for being a director, whether I'm remembered for being an actor or a writer or whatever. I would simply like to think that we are doing some worthwhile work that is touching people, entertaining people, making them laugh, making them feel a little better, helping them to learn something about themselves, about the world we live in, about the future. I would like to be, I guess, remembered as somebody who communicated ideas."