When I was very young, you would get the TV listings from The Globe and The Herald, and you would basically go through them, circle things, and map out your viewing week.

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.

A flower always turns its face to light

She was the most beautiful thing I had ever seen, a tiny, bloody angel in the snow, and they were going to destroy her.

Life is all about Takeaways from great people and Giveaways to the needy ones.

Excellence is making a rubber shoe initially

Things are not working for us because our focus is lost

Animals play a big part in my life, on tour or at home.

Joy is what we all seek. It is an energy more powerful than food. But without love we can not feel true joy.

Avoid dishonest gain: no price can recompence the pangs of vice.

No one person leads alone - can't do it, it's impossible. It doesn't make any sense. You need a team.

[P]hilosophy . . .consists chiefly in suggesting unintelligible answers to insoluble problems.