It Certainly Woke Me Up To How

I Actually Met One Of My Business Partners [neal Dodson] At The Governor's School Summer Program, So We've Known Each Other Since We Were 15 And 16 Years Old, And We Both Ended Up At Carnegie Mellon Together. He Started Working For A Producer Out Of School After A Few Years, And Then We Started The Company Together.

We Did Monologues And Scenes, And New York I Did A Scene From Amadeus And A Monologue From Pounding Nails In The Floor With My Forehead By Eric Bogosian, And Then In L.a. I Switched The Scene To This Is Our Youth And Did The Same Monologue. I Was Spiky-haired, Super Skinny. A Lot Of People Were Like, "you Should Come Here And Do A Sitcom." That Was The Feedback That I Got. Obviously It Was Quite A Different Journey Than The One I've Actually Had, But I Just Listened To People.

When I Got Out Of School, It Used To Be That It Was Theater Actors That Ended Up Doing Film And Television, And You Had To Come From The Theater To Be Taken Seriously In That World.

I Feel Like That [the Role In Star Trek] Is A Prime Example Of, Yeah, I Got That Role And It Was Awesome, Because It Changed A Lot For Me Professionally, But Then Creatively, It Became A Whole Other Thing, With J.j. [abrams] And Chris [pine] And The People I Got To Know. Now I Just Feel Like It's Our Jobs To Be Open And To Keep Moving Stuff Forward. I Don't Know What That Means. This Is The First Time In A Long Time That I Have No Idea What's Happening Next. As Scary As That Is, And As Anxiety-provoking As That Can Still Be, It's Also Really Exciting.

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.