You never know what people are going to go and see.

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.

I feel very adventurous. There are so many doors to be opened, and I'm not afraid to look behind them.

Sometimes, the most graceful way to handle something is to be decidedly ungraceful.

Take a step in the right direction and you will find your smile again. It will be there beaming by the light of God’s amazing grace.

I am dying but otherwise I am quite well.

I've never been a cop hater. You know, when I was breaking the law, the cops were the opponent. I just thought I could outsmart them.

We knew that, in doing something that's based around the world of the movie and how popular that is, we really wanted to do the biggest show that we've ever done, in terms of the look of the show.

I have collected all the writings of the Empire and burnt those which were of no use.

If it's the truth you seek, then darling love you'll find.

I want to write songs and play them for people - live.

Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.