I write drama in the English language. If I wasn't working in London I'd be doing something wrong.

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.

The body is an outstanding source of strength

Well, fathers and sons… one way or the other, they always disappoint each other.

We chose whether to be warriors or to be ordinary.

I really have never been nervous in the big leagues.

I can give you a six-word formula for success: "Think things through - then follow through."

There is no cure for laziness but a large family helps.

It can be tough as a jobbing actor.

Accept your lack of knowledge and use it as your asset.

I can't make anybody happy, so I try my best to be good at what I do

I want to walk into a room, be it a hospital for the dying or a hospital for the sick children, and feel that I am needed. I want to do, not just to be.