I hate doing anything in offices. I either want to be out in the world or in my own environment - and it should be your own environment that you work in.

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.

A door that seems to stand open must be a man's size or it is not the door that Providence means for him.

If I have one addiction in life, it's probably food.

Every girls' night needs a funny movie and a good conversation about guys! My friends and I also love picking outfits out for each other to try on at slumber parties. It's so fun.

For all the days of our lives," we finished and I felt a little like a character in one of my grandma's soap operas.

I'm always careful to say that I changed everything I found.

My background is Scottish.

When you advance in Krishna Consciousness it is more difficult to tolerate being honored than to tolerate being dishonored.

Plants and animals repeat routine, but men who are not restrained will go into the future like explorers into a new country.

I like the stories with the historical themes.

From time to time, little men will find fault with what you have done...but they will go down the stream like bubbles, they will vanish. But the work you have done will remain for the ages.