Q Has your life changed since playing James T. Kirk in Star Trek?

A Yeah, very clearly. I've been given many more opportunities than I had before, and I have had more opportunity to say no, which I didn't have a lot of before. at's quite nice. So it has, for sure, in many positive ways.

Q Your father Robert Pine appeared in Chips as Sergeant Joseph Getraer. In the movie, your character is accused of nepotism. Did you experience that coming from a family of actors?

A The first audition I went out on was because my father was on an audition for a TV show called the Gilmore Girls, and that kind of snowballed a lot of stuff in my life.

What I appreciate from my family is that there is a common language to it, so if I've had a long, hard day, I can call up and say, "Such and such happened, and the director said such and such and the other actor said blah, blah, blah." And they're like, "Oh yeah, OK, we get that."

Because my mom's done it, my grandmother did it, my father did it, my sister actually worked for Tony (Scott, who directs Unstoppable).

Q Was that the real reason why you felt you wanted to be an actor?

I wanted to become an actor because I wanted friends. I went to a very large university, and was a shy, late bloomer, and I really didn't have a social network.
