"To say that this man is only half-human in some cases would be a compliment indeed. We are not really talking to Spock right now, we are talking to the director of the latest Star Trek adventure: Leonard Nimoy. What a fabulous piece of work!"
"Thank you."

"I couldn't help but note - we saw the film the other evening - only two chords of the music played and already people were applauding... really, they were that hungry and excited, they're gonna be pleasantly surprised. You had a different twist for this film, they have a lot more of the human element in there than it had in the past."
"Yeah, a lot more humor than we have had... one of the most famous Star Trek episodes we had was 'Troubles With Tribbles'... we had not done anything like that in three movies. It was pretty serious stuff. Hurting each other, shooting each other, torturing each other and blowing up ships and all that kind of stuff where people were dying."

"... you also wrote this."
"Well, I wrote a cover of the story with Harve Bennett, yes."

"There was one incident written in the final script where Bill Shatner was supposed to Judo-chop a fellow  whom he has to get out of the way and I said he's not going to do that. We'll have got locked him into a room to get rid of him. And we did without it. And it works fine."

"... The special effects in this motion picture are indeed very special. They seem to be very realistic. Why is that?"
"Well, eh... I'm not sure I can answer that question."

The host gives an example how people were rocked in the ship in a previous scene and now it looked they were actually pushed around."
"Oh, oh, o.k. Good. With that specific question I need a much more specific answer. We rocked the set... The set was on a giant crane... The thing weighted a couple of hundreds of tons... the crane could actually lift the entire set... I felt it would be much better for the actors with a sense of reality."

"The other things I noticed was the reconstruction of the character 'Spock'. It's a whole bargain for Spock, isn't it?"
"Well, in the end of Star Trek III when Spock was resurrected, they went back on the street, but there wasn't a ounce of brain matter operating in his brain (laughing). He was looking around at that people standing around and staring at Bill Shatner and finally manages to say: 'Your name is Jim.' A perfect accomplishment. So, in this picture we had the opportunity to watch this character kind of to grow up again and re-identify himself...
(On both, Directing and starring)... It was physically very tough to do. And it made long hours, going home very, very tired, but I was enjoying doing both. So I really had a good time doing it."

"Spock is really a different kind of character. Is it tough going from Leonard Nimoy to Spock and to maybe even another character in another show?"
"Ah... it is like slipping on an old glove. It feels like a real good old piece of leather which fits very well and is worn well. I am totally comfortable with doing it."