If you see, as I do, in edited film, you're going to end up as a director.

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 greatest art is to shape the quality of the day.

You become excellent when you fly at a level that creates a wide gap between where you were before and where you are now. Fly like the eagle

Prot: I'm not tired.Brewer: I am.Prot: Perhaps you're getting too much sleep. All your beings seem to sleep a lot. Is that because it's so awful to be awake?

I like dark humor. My favorite movie of all time is 'Harold and Maude.'

This day last year Livingstone died-a Scotsman and a Christian, loving God and his neighbour in the heart of Africa. Go thou and do likewise!

Bachelors know more about women than married men; if they didn't they'd be married too.

Don't concentrate on the obvious. They might want you to miss something else.

My hand has become the obedient instrument of a remote will.

I couldn't see who swam in the darkness, who wore shadows like a second skin.

Most of my critics don't even listen to me; they are clueless. They just go to Web sites that report what I say out of context.