You can believe in originals only if you just don't know their context within literature. Certainly I believe in originality, but it lies with the teller, not the tale.

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.

Patience ensures victory.

We ought to know the history of our ancient ancestors.

Afghanistan had collapsed and everyone's life now lies broken at different levels within the rubble.

You can not be the judge of another's wishes. If you love someone, you must believe that they know what is best for themselves.

You are the daughter of your Father, inheritor of the Earth, beautiful and blameless, chosen.

Men cannot act before the camera in the presence of death.

Devolution will kill Nationalism stone dead.

The United States of America will not permit the world's most dangerous regimes to threaten us with the world's most destructive weapons.

The skills gap is a reflection of what we value. To close the gap, we need to change the way the country feels about work.

I think faith can be anything. It can be believing in yourself, or if you believe there's a higher being that's watching over you.