I'd been working so hard making the film that I hadn't even emotionally processed the fact that I was a director.

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.

Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.

What the heart loves, the will chooses and the mind justifies.

Other people sound flat to my ear; their words just hang in the air. But when my mother says something, the ends curl.

Hypocrisy is the mother of all evil and racial prejudice is still her favourite child.

When I hosted the dinner I served fast food hamburgers. It had nothing to do with black, white, purple, yellow, green race. it had nothing to do with Tiger or his family or his golf game.

Reporters are like puppets. They simply respond to the pull of the most powerful strings.

So eager for eternal damnation.

Cowardice is how you decide to be in real life

I kind of put myself in this mindset where time doesn't really exist that much. There is no past or future. I just try to stay really in the present.

O gentlemen, the time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long, If life did ride upon a dial's point, Still ending at the arrival of an hour.