Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

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.

On historical you take the known facts, dramatize them, and then stitch them together by invention. It's a projective thing.

Redrafts can be very lucrative for me, but you must understand that if films go through many drafts or writers it's because someone doesn't want to do the picture and never will.

Success comes from having dreams that are bigger than your fears.

Nemo intrat in caelum nisi per philosophiam

With Jehovah- Jireh, life is a joyful journey.

Let’s face it. It’s already hard being yourself, so why do we insist on adding pressure trying to please others.

The first guy asks the second guy, 'Do you believe in free will?' The second guy answers, 'I have no choice.

I'm a war of head versus heart, it's always this way. My head is weak, my heart always speaks, before I know what it will say.

We toured that record for a year, which turned out to be the culmination of ten years of being constantly on the road. We were sick to death of touring.

On average, 90 percent of the variability of returns and 100 percent of the absolute level of return is explained by asset allocation.

American Eagle clothing is stylish, flattering and all about embracing your individuality.

Humor (is) intrinsitc to Christianity.