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.

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.

And yet, to say the truth, reason and love keep little company together nowadays.

Kayn began to speak as if she were reading his obituary. “I can see the paper now

You are as prone to love, as the sun is to shine.

Trinidad may seem complex, but to anyone who knows it, it is a simple, colonial, philistine society.

The modern computer with all its various gadgets and wonderful electronic facilities now makes it possible to preserve and reinvigorate all the cultural richness of mankind.

I think I was always realistic - well, not the Percy thing, that was ridiculous - but I never dreamed of being a racing car driver or anything.

His books are kept on freestanding shelves hung at different angles on a sea-green wall. They defy gravity, as good books should.

And y'all scared I can tell That I'mma get Bucks like Milwaukee, cause like Sam, I ca' sell.

Concentration is the key that opens up to the child the latent treasures within him.

There lives within the very flame of love A kind of wick or snuff that will abate it.