In all honesty a gangster picture was the easiest kind of film for me to get made.

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.

When he was rough, my body soared. When he was gentle, he slayed me.

I would like to paint the way a bird sings.

When more and more people are thrown out of work unemployment results.

Love is metaphysical gravity.

As long as you fight, you cannot lose... if you leave everything out there, it doesn't matter if you win or lose. To me you can never lose.

Playing shows and making records keeps been getting easier and more fun.

Let a man practise the profession he best knows. [Lat., Quam quisque novit artem, in hac se exerceat.]

What I love about writing is the contradictions we all embody as human beings.

Feast today makes fast tomorrow

You're never quite sure how you feel about a neighbor until a 'For Sale' sign suddenly appears in front of his house.