If you decide to do Hamlet in a funny hat staged in a ruined factory, it doesn't make you Shakespeare.

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.

For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled.

Then the Warrior realizes that these repeated experiences have but one aim: to teach him what he does not want to learn.

Speak what you think today in hard words and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today.

Character is doing what you don't want to do but know you should do.

Don't try to tell me it's because I'm scared, because the truth is the only time I'm not terrified is when I'm with you.

It is as though God said, "You think to create order? Here is the appropriate disorder, since they are one.

But I'm a historian. I wasn't interested in just being a producer, I was interested in doing research and presenting that research to a general public

Sometimes I definitely shut people out. I can be that sort of girlfriend who crosses her arms, shakes her head and says, "Nope, I'm not telling you what's wrong. I'm fine."

The only positive benefit of the injury to Flintoff may be the end of his captaincy ambitions

And there never was an apple, in Adam's opinion, that wasn't worth the trouble you got into for eating it.