You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along.

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 could be the drumbeat in your chest like madness before a storm swirling restlessly.

Better a crust of black bread than a mountain of paper confections, Better a daisy in earth than a dahlia cut and gathered, Better a cowslip with root than a prize carnation without it

Democracy's real test lies in its respect for minority opinion.

Anything that ends with death isn't really mind, just the things that pass through a mind.

You can put whatever you want inside evil and good in morality.

We can kill lots of people. We do kill lots of people. We can destroy virtually anything we choose to destroy.

The more he cast away, the more he had.

People were never meant to be idols. We aren't supposed to be worshipped. Only God deserves that kind of praise.

When I got into the sport I was so fat that my manager said he should send me to boot camp to lose the weight!

I had a 20-year, stellar government career.