You know a shooter when you see it. At least the creative people do. If a picture isn't obvious in the first draft you're kind of screwed.

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.

The doctrines that have been preached in our churches in Africa and globally has not been helpful for believers to dominate the earth.

Rather than making money I believe in making people happy, all other things are secondary. Money isn't important, creative satisfaction is

I was playing in bands before high school even. My first band I was in at 14. And we were playing just Beatles.

I can love only what I can place so high above me that I cannot reach it.

Childhood and youth are ends in themselves, not stages.

There is no doubt that a woman's economic empowerment is very much interconnected to her health and the well being of her children.

There is nothing more difficult to find than oneself.

It is better to do the smallest thing in the world than to hold half an hour to be too small a thing.

In general, fakirs, like scribes and potters, are sitting down, when he's standing up, a fakir is just like an other man, and sitting down, he'll be smaller than the others.

The government itself cannot create jobs. Jobs are created by business people and entrepreneurs.