I never work until I have a deadline. You have to fit so much in a given day that you just don't get serious until you know when the deadline is.

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.

Never let negativity derail your journey as a writer. Use the energy for your own betterment.

Education helps you to be what you really want to be.

Life is made up of desires that seem big and vital one minute and little and absurd the next. I guess we get what's best for us in the end.

To split yourself in two is just the most radical thing you can do

The real knife to a man's heart was his woman's tears.

Ten flashing lights are a nuisance but 500 are fantastic.

Only in America could a Don King happen.

I just don't think men fancy me.

Renewed shall be blade that was broken, The crownless again shall be king.

You can learn steps, but you cannot learn how to boogie.