William Shatner was celebrated at the red-carpet premiere of his documentary, William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill at Lincoln Center's Alice Tully Hall in New York City Sunday night. The film is an intimate portrait of William Shatner's personal journey across nine decades of a boldly lived and fully realized life, stripping away all the masks he has worn during his storied career, to reveal the man behind it all. William Shatner: You Can Call Me Bill comes to theaters on Shatner's 93rd birthday on March 22.
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00:00 Hi, I'm William Shatner, you're watching Life Minute TV.
00:03 I realize you gotta cherish each day and you seem to, at least I seem to gain momentum
00:15 and every passing day I know I'm one day shorter.
00:18 I've got to extract as much as possible out of each day.
00:23 I write, I have horses that I'm totally involved with, dogs, family, adventure, food, I mean
00:33 the joy of living.
00:34 And I'm reading more and more articles and books about aging and for me it's, I'm curious
00:41 about everything.
00:42 I will tell you the thing that just blew me away was the very first question that I asked
00:47 on the first day of interviews.
00:48 He launched into this sort of ten minute monologue.
00:53 The way that he was able to right away delve into something so personal.
01:00 The signal that I got from that is that this is a guy who is ready to do this, who wants
01:03 to do this and you know, no holds barred.
01:06 He's had a very long acting career but we all remember him as captain of the Starship
01:11 Enterprise.
01:12 That show, Star Trek, was actually cancelled in its third season.
01:17 Oh, that's the season that went into 1969.
01:21 What else happened that year?
01:22 We landed and walked on the moon.
01:25 When we reflect on our access to space, what does thinking about space mean?
01:30 The morality tale that every one of those episodes represented, that's the foundational
01:35 storytelling that existed in that series.
01:39 Everybody has a story.
01:41 If this modest story of 90 minutes can move you, then we've accomplished what we set out
01:52 to say that I was telling as best I could my utmost earnest thoughts.
01:59 (upbeat music)