I Try To Be As Fearless As

I Think The Next 50 Years Are Going To Present The Human Race With Challenges That So Far Exceed The Limitations Of Geopolitical Boundaries Or Nationalist Identity. We're Going To Be Up Against Challenges That We Can Barely Fathom At This Point. So How We Embrace Them And Deal With Them Will Define A Great Many Things About Where We Go, But, You Know, It's Hard To Say. We're Teetering On The Edge, I Would Say.

My Relationship With Leonard [nimoy] Was A Byproduct Of Playing Spock That I Never Would Have Imagined, But The More I Got To Know Him, The More I Realized, There Are No Mistakes. I'm Playing This Role For Very Specific Reasons, And Maybe Those Reasons Have To Do With Where I Am Creatively In My Life, But Maybe They Have To Do With Where I Am Personally In My Life. Leonard Was Such A Teacher For Me.

My Dad Died When I Was A Kid, So I Think It Became A Place For Me To Go Where My Mom Knew That I Was Safe And Taken Care Of And Looked After.

But When I Found Out That Jamey Rodemeyer Had Made An It Gets Better Video Only Months Before Taking His Own Life, I Felt Indescribable Despair.

I Had Just Gotten Heroes, And I Had Just Found Out That I Was Going To Be Doing [star] Trek, And I Thought It Was Probably A Good Idea For Me To Create An Infrastructure That Would Allow Me To Do My Own Work And Put My Stuff Into The World.