As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

Star Wars was great at the beginning and crap at the end while Star Trek has always been interesting, and the difference is in the writing, and the thematic intentions.

Look at what people are trying to conceal, and you’ll see that they’re revealing everything.

I'm a homebody, as many writers are, and need to be by myself, and I like to be by the Atlantic Ocean.

I think that gambling is a synthetic experience and that if you have any balls you gamble with your life. I have. So can everybody else.

I need as much of the business of making a film to be in my own workspace. It really ought to be a bit more like doing a novel, alone, at first. I'm feeling my way.

Out of all of the Star Trek movies, I happen to like the most recent one the best. I think it was the best one ever done.

When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.

Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.

Enjoy the limitless bliss consciousness here and now. The reality of you lies much beyond your sensory perceptions and boundaries.

It's about time to see the downfall of the scorecards of who's right and who's wrong. At the end of the day, what's important is that you feel good.

Do not dwell on past failures or it will ruin your future.

You only get to keep what you refuse to let go of

If workers struggle for higher wages, this is hailed as "social gains", if businessmen struggle for higher profits, this is damned as "selfish greed".

Nickel for my thoughts, dimes in my bed. Quarters of the kush shape the lines in my head.

For the world you are someone, but for someone you are the world.

We have lost confidence in reason because we have learned that man is chiefly a creature of habit and emotion.

If we do the kind of common-sense public health measures we know work, we ought to be able to stop it from being a global pandemic.

Don't worry, fairy vomit is no doubt sweet-smelling to humans.