The old days of screenwriting, and myths about screenwriting, are maybe over. It's a literary form, if you can wake up to it.

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.

I have discovered that some people are wealthier than others not because of their superior intelligence but because of their abundant mindset.

Poetry is the flower of life. It blooms to fill life with her fragrance of inner beauty.

Our memories are like a city: we tear some structures down, and we use the rubble of the old to raise up the new ones.

The more we connect with our Spiritual self, the uglier sin looks. From the book: Removing Your Shame Label.

I feel absolutely sorry for the person who can't genuinely get excited about his or her work.

If you have to be burned at the stake, be a good fellow and collect your own fire-wood.

I think people in Italy live their lives better than we do. It's an older country, and they've learned to celebrate dinner and lunch, whereas we sort of eat as quickly as we can to get through it.

Nobody can tell you how the blues feel unless they have the blues. We all take it differently.

I think that the memory of Armenia's genocide opened my eyes at an early age to the existence of political cynicism.

Get away from all books and forms and let your soul see its Self. "We are deluded and maddened by books", Shri Krishna declares.