Quotes About Roddenberry

My first interaction with Gene was that after I auditioned I walked out of the room and then this big guy walks out with me, and he puts his hand on my shoulder and he says, 'You make my words sound better than they are.' And I said, 'Well, you must be the writer.' And he said 'I'm Gene Roddenberry.' And I had no idea who that was.

I wanted to send a message to the television industry that excitement is not made of car chases.

I'm sure Roddenberry in his wildest dreams never would have thought he would have gotten five TV series out of his idea.

Of course, I have Gene Roddenberry to thank for the creation of Barclay.

I remember seeing an abstract of his rights once, and someone had actually thought of a clause that said the intensity of the musical fanfare, under Roddenberry's on-screen credit, could be no less than that of the musical fanfare when Shatner's name was on the screen.

From that experience, I learned that Roddenberry's "box" forced us to be more creative and to tell stories in more interesting and different ways than we would have in any other typical universe, so I loved that box.

I used to call it "Roddenberry's Box," and I loved being in it, because the restrictions forced us to be more creative than going into the routine melodramas that we often see in SF television.

Well, Gene Roddenberry was also a fan of drama, so I think he would have agreed with that up-front.

Gene Roddenberry was a genius.

I'm a gunfighter, Jim, not a demonologist. Sin moved past him so that he could burn the body o n the ground. Nice Bones impression. Roddenberry would be proud.

Roddenberry had created quite a complex and at times mysterious character. Guarded, cautious, careful in showing his feelings in expressing his ideas about many things - I found that very interesting.

We tried to limit human versus human conflict only to those cases where it could be powerfully motivated and made completely believable.