Novelists who get shitty about screenwriting invariably can't do it, or they can't hack it in the world of what's really, in truth, very bold and very public enterprise.

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.

Sometimes a step back or away from an idea, task or project brings even more perspective, insight and clarity.

You have so much love in you. Trust your firends and family. They're all you have, but they're precious, the most important part of your life.

Having a large world of his own in his own head and heart, he tolerated confinement to a small, still corner of the real world very patiently.

The difference between a retiring man and a used condom is that the condom isn’t given a golden watch to inspire the illusion that it still matters to whomever that has just used it.

No nation's flag is great or glorious if it flies over the weak and downtrodden, even if they raise and protect it out of misguided allegiance.

The Obama administration kind of shows how you can use diplomacy to bring the most important countries together and get the whole world on board.

You are one of my nicest thoughts.

Fame is a fickle friend, Harry. Celebrity is as celebrity does. Remember that.

There are basically two types of people. People who accomplish things, and people who claim to have accomplished things. The first group is less crowded.

Coming into the place of Soul-awareness is coming home.