Why did you ...  don the ears again?
- Leonard Nimoy: I didn't like the scripts for the last films. Spock was not important any more. But then director J.J. Abrams called. He described the story of the new film, which should show Kirk, Spock and McCoy as young people.  ...  He told me that Spock was essential for the plot.  ...

If you had he chance to travel in time which epoch would you choose?
- I would travel to the future, maybe 50 years, to see which solutions we find for the problems we deal with now.

Memories about the first landing on the moon?
- I watched it in television as everybody else. When Armstrong spoke his legendary sentence I walked outside to the street to look at the stars. Before the landing on the moon Star Trek was moderately successful. After the moon landing the series was repeated and a success.

Later you met astronauts frequently. What did you talk about - the possibilities of warp speed?
- Most of them have been pilots before, who later were trained as astronauts. For I also have a license as a pilot, there were many topics in common. Of course I was especially interested in how they fly a shuttle. Above all how you land without propulsion.

Were the astronauts interested in Star Trek? 
- Sure, like others are fascinated of science fiction. When engineers watched Star Trek in the 60ies they might have wondered how they talked with folding communicators through space. Today this vision is all day practice: Cell phones are much more advanced than what we had in Star Trek. After all: We had the first cell phones.

Is it correct that you possess a clock which indicates how much time is left for you?
- Correct. I orientated myself by the pattern of my life insurance. They had sent me a questionnaire which was helpful. By certain data my life expectancy could be calculated. Now the clock ticks.

Most people would be afraid to permanently be shown how long they have to live.
- There are two ways to look at this: Either it makes you mad because you become aware: You only have little time to live. Or you handle it practically, look ahead and say: Cape diem, I use the time I have left.

You lately got more attention through photo books and exhibitions than through filming. The last was your project "The Full Body Project" where you show corpulent women naked. Do you intend to rebel against beauty ideals from film and fashion?
- I wouldn't talk of rebellion. It was my comment to the bizarre slimness- and beauty delusion of our society. ...

What fascinates you with photography?
- I dealt with photography since I was 13 years old. It gives me the chance to be creative whenever I want. When there is an idea I find exciting I can begin right away. I create a picture which I can hang on my wall or send to a friend, give away as a present or sell it - whatever. I can make it myself, this is very satisfying.

The British billionaire Richard Branson wants to fly tourists in a shuttle to the moon. Would you like to be on board?
- My enthusiasm doesn't go that far. Space is not for me. I rather stay down on earth.