I never write with particular actors in mind.

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.

Every year, we have 365 chances to begin a new lifetime.

Writers are people whose words speak louder than their actions.

I believe the night I’ve never methides one elusive star I needto divide me between darkness and light

The secret to good health is to behave like your ancestors did before the Industrial Revolution.

THEY STOLE YOUR STYLEBUT THEY COULDN'T STEAL YOUR GLOW

It is possible to read the history of this country as one long struggle to extend the liberties established in our Constitution to everyone in America.

I don't think that when Zionism began there was a claim that we were losing - even in part - our capacity to contribute to other peoples.

Action that is clearly right needs no justification.

Real samadhi is off the game board, friends. It is not something you are even aware of.

To build wealth today, you must be in your own business.