I think honestly, believe it or not, that Dude, Where’s My Car? in a way represents its time better than almost any film made around that.
BRENT SPINERI think honestly, believe it or not, that Dude, Where’s My Car? in a way represents its time better than almost any film made around that.
BRENT SPINERI didn’t really watch the show [Star Trek]. I still haven’t seen about 150 of them. So I didn’t really think of them too much in terms of episodes. I thought of them as kind of one long seven-year episode.
BRENT SPINERAnd I was, like, “Oh, my God, I can’t believe I’m performing a musical number in front of Donald O’Connor,” who’s one of the greats of the silver screen. But it was a thrilling experience, it really was.
BRENT SPINERI got Greg Aronowitz, who does [ Felicia Day] sets, to do mine as well, and he’s just amazing. He can work miracles with nothing.
BRENT SPINERMartha Coolidge directed the movie [Introducing Dorothy Dandridge], giving me another shot, and it was an amazing experience.
BRENT SPINERMarianne Williamson, who did A Course In Miracles, she was in my high-school drama class, too. So it was kind of an amazing class.
BRENT SPINER[Martin Scorsese ] basically works just like any other director. You work the scene, you try to find what’s best in it and make it work. That’s what it was like.
BRENT SPINERAnd the basic sort of thrust of Star Trek being about equality and tolerance and things I believe in deeply.
BRENT SPINEREarl Mills is probably the best role I’ve ever been given in a film. And it was a great experience to work with Halle [Berry] and Klaus Maria Brandauer, an Austrian actor who’s a hero of mine.
BRENT SPINERI think Rick Berman just called me and asked me if I wanted to do the show [Star Trek: Enterprise], and he said they’d write an arc if I’d do it.
BRENT SPINER[ Felicia Day] is really figured it all out, and it was impressive. It was nothing like our set, because her set was like working on a real film.
BRENT SPINERI’ve actually only seen it once, and it was in Hawaii, in a little theater in Oahu shortly after it was released. But Roland Emmerich is a really smart guy, and he makes really fun movies to watch.
BRENT SPINEROf those, the only one that really stands out for me is Tales From The Darkside, for a couple of reasons, one in particular being who I got to work with on it, which was Eddie Bracken.
BRENT SPINERThere is no question that everybody who works in show business is lucky because of the number of people who wish they where working in show business.
BRENT SPINERHaving spent so much time in a fictional world, I prefer to read about the real world
BRENT SPINERI think everyone agrees First Contact was our best film, and even at that, they’re kind of… I don’t know, they’re sort of movies. But they’re kind of really Star Trek movies, if you take my meaning. It’s hard for me to say. I was glad to be doing them.
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