You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.

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.

It takes people to move crowds in the right direction, crowds by themselves just stand around and mutter.

I made a mental note to watch which bottle became empty soonest, sometimes a more telling evaluation system than any other.

Obama came to power with this element of raising many new hopes and expectations but he's been fought back by the system, becoming almost paralyzed in a way.

There's always room for improvement.

In proceeding to the dining-room, the gentleman gives one arm to the lady he escorts--it is unusual to offer both.

You cannot provoke. You cannot insult the faith of others. You cannot make fun of the faith of others.

Last week I was walking by a cemetery, two guys came after me with shovels. It was all about money.

There has been a comparatively greater proportion of good queens, than of good kings.

Death takes us piecemeal, not at a gulp.

Fairies in Ireland are sometimes as big as we are, sometimes bigger, and sometimes, as I have been told, about three feet high.