The only answer to "Are you Beatles or Stones?" is, "I'm both."

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.

A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmareto the jeweled vision of a life started anew.

You are my first and last light, of my day and my night.

Don’t box your children in and tell them that everything is a sin. You’ll produce either rebels, or very boring people.

having enough for now, while not harming the future.

We need to reduce our dependence on foreign oil by ending the subsidies for oil companies, and doubling down on clean energy that generates jobs and strengthens our security.

I have never had a NY resolution. While you wait each year to make a resolution you never commit to, I get it done everyday.

Trends are manufactured. Real things just happen.

Satan conquered Jesus on the Cross and took His spirit to the dark regions of hell

Love is a lot like dancing; you just surrender to the music.

Larger deficits are necessary and proper means to mitigate unemployment as the far greater evil in terms of human welfare.