Robert Picardo Quotes

I think Star Trek has been very double-edged for all of us - as actors, writers, directors.

The guys on 'Game of Thrones' trust me implicitly to take care of the action stuff. I don't mess with their drama, but they allow me to come up with ideas like 'Hey, what if the giant had a bow? And what if he shot some guy off the wall?' With 'Constantine,' too, they really trust me to scare the audience.

I love coming up with the stories and being creative and working with creative people and coming up with visuals and creating characters.

One of the reasons I never had a problem handing over my characters to other creators is that I knew that they would add their own influences and takes on the characters and make them better for it.

One day I had an idea for a movie. Everything came after that.

I'm always there at home thinking of Wallace and Gromit ideas.

I had a brother who was bullying me to write something because we wanted to make our own movies. So it was out of necessity in the beginning. Over time, I began to see that I could create the roles I wanted to play rather than just waiting around.

I was willing to do anything that Chris Carter wrote.

Directing is so interesting. You know, it just sort of encompasses everything that you see, that you know, that you've felt, that you have observed.

The seed of an idea laying dormant in an old sketchbook is fed the missing ingredient from a new experience. Trying to share some of these experiences, some of the wonders, is one of the reasons why I do books.

I was involved with drama departments since the 5th grade. I played at it. It was an escape.

Filmmaking is a chance to live many lifetimes.

I like working closely with artists. I think that's very important in fantasy and science fiction - the visual aspect of the worlds and the characters.

I've played four roles on 'Star Trek.' My favorite episode was 'The Visitor' on 'Deep Space Nine.'

Ideas can come while reading a good novel.

Who wants to put together something that will bear some relationship to the vision or memory or experience or story or idea or dream or whatever.

[My work] just develops and develops, and I'm very nicely served by the universe: just as I'm ready to take the conversation further with myself, some other individual pops up, like David McKenzie did, with this idea of making this film [Teknolust], and provides exactly the leap to the next adventure.

Sometimes a story idea will come to me, and suddenly I've figured out the whole thing, and I feel like I'm collaborating with something other than myself.

I don't have a problem with green screen at all. I think children invented CGI. We invent worlds. A stick can become a sword. Or a bowl of stones can become a bowl of tomatoes. That's what children do, and that's what CGI enables us to do.

I like coming up with new characters. Whether it's revamping an old character no one likes or just coming up with brand-new stuff, that's kind of what excited me as an artist.

I'm a great believer in gathering together all your obsessions and seeing if you can make a novel out of them.

You always remember the delicacy of the work you do on a new play - the delicacy and the rigor and the courage.

You get your inspiration - suggestions - wherever you have to, even from your mother.

And I enjoyed the celebrity and the creativity that was involved in Star Trek.

If you look at the most meaningful science fiction, it didn't come from watching other films. We seem to be in a place now where filmmakers make films based on other films because that's where the stimuli and influence comes from.