I was always entirely about work, about getting where I am now. If I'm not working I'm thinking about it, though at some point I learned not to talk about it very much.

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.

Do what is right for the right reasons.

I have to laugh when I receive newsletters from major personalities and when you hit reply, you get a 'do-not-reply' address. It's ridiculous! Don't you want your customers to reply to you?

To lend each other a hand when we're falling, perhaps that's the only work that matters in the end.

I try to be objective. I do not claim to be detached.

There's a tremendous intellectual fervor among independent filmmakers, and that has to be cultivated.

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts

Real are the dreams of Gods, and smoothly pass Their pleasures in a long immortal dream.

I'm a workaholic. I could easily work 300-plus days of the year.

A man may be a false prophet and yet speak the truth.

One of the few things a person is willing to pay for and not get.