I don't watch anything. I work so much. If I see a film, it's usually that I'll go in after working 15 hours and slam in The Bridge on the River Kwai or something.

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.

Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.

Faith is never a matter of can or cannot, but rather, will or will not

Beauty can't amuse you, but brainwork - reading, writing, thinking - can.

Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man

Reason's voice and God's, Nature's and Duty's, never are at odds.

One paints with one's head, not one's hand.

I have this typical Ukrainian face. Even people who know my music don't recognize me most of the time, thank God.

No man thoroughly understands a truth until he has contended against it.

There just comes a time when it's so clear that moving on is the best decision.

I don't want to put 12 singles on an album. I want to make a story, a little movie.