When I was young I was only thinking of writing, and whatever was going on was unreal and comparatively unimportant.

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.

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.

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.

God's grace is seed of salvation through faith in Christ Jesus, the Son of God.

There will be no beautiful widow with Persian eyes sitting at your grave. And teary-eyed kids won't be asking: "Papa, papa, can you hear us?

Unto whomsoever much is given of him shall much be required.

Any woman who does not live for unselfish service is a useless cumberer of the earth.

Calvin:"It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means?" Television: "...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet

There is no more effective medicine to apply to feverish public sentiments than figures.

I always say every single moment that has led me to this moment has made me who I am.

Paradise is here or nowhere: you must take your joy with you or you will never find it.

The poet laureate of England talked about murdering Jews on the West Bank.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.