I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.

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.

Anxiety's like a rocking chair. It gives you something to do, but it doesn't get you very far.

Mobile is the digital gateway for the real world.

When expectations delay for too long, doubt draw nearer in haste and patience goes farther

I know thy pride and the naughtiness of thine heart.

I don't know how you can go your whole life and not listen once to Bob Marley - what's the point?

[If homes belongs to couples or roommates]: I think homes should reflect the individuals and their individual taste rather than someone else's.

No matter what you do, no matter how hard it is, no matter how challenging it isdo it with a smile on your face.

Don't take yourself too seriously - learn to laugh. Hire slowly and fire fast. And the most important thing is: you never invest in ideas, only in people!

BE QUIET!!...What do you want...? I was in the middle of saying something nice.

The last freedom is choosing your attitude.