Getting the correct writer is simply like casting. You wouldn't hire an actor in order to tell him how to work. He knows how to work, which is why you hired him.

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.

Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.

One word can turn into a book just as one poem should never be overlooked.

If there are dominant teams, people enjoy discussing whether that's good or bad for the game, and if there aren't any dominant teams, then people enjoy discussing that.

I love the Tea Party. They are the ultimate beer goggles. They make everything look better.

The profoundest affinities are those most readily felt.

I have to keep Dune perfume in my dressing room, because I always wear it, but I must never put it on in case it makes me choke.

I'll never get why the earth is a puzzle that i'll never fit.

there are virtues which are very well in the abstract, but which, encountered in the flesh, can be a source of extreme irritation.

I'd heard that Lenny Bruce used a lot of profanity and obscenities in his act, and I was curious.