"I forced myself to think of what my own coming death would be like. There is a moment, I feel, in that marginal area between consciousness and death, just at the last moment, when you say to yourself. "Oh, my God, I really dying ...." and then you're out, you're dead. For me Kirk had always lived a life of awe and wonder. Those were his feeling about the universe and everything he encountered. And that's why I played those scenes that way. The meeting of every new alien was never marked by fear or apprehension. Rather, the emotion was always one of awe, the magnifience of creation. I felt like he would greet death in this same spirit. When it came to film, I ad-lipped a bit in the scene. Just as he was about to die, I had him say "oh my", as though he'd seen something, and then before he could express it, he was dead. And that came out of my own hope that when my time comes, I will look at my death with the same kind of awe and wonder. Maybe in that instant, the secret of the universe will be revealed."
-"whether it's drugs or artistry or athelietics, all life seeks to re-created that ulimate sexual moment"
-"You have to create your life. You have to crave it, like a sculpture"
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