Most films go out like skydivers who have had their chutes packed by a committee of blind schizophrenics.

The novel may be dead as a commercial form. When art forms things die as commercial forms, something happens to the practice of those arts that isn't very pleasant. It used to be that a poet like Tennyson could keep his house and his coach-and-four and his staff of six servants on the income from poetry. That doesn't happen anymore.

I don't think the latest Star Wars pictures have any artistic intentions, but the original picture opened up epic science fiction.

I love editorial and sound and music, and I was working with the best people, so you learn a lot.

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.

I cut London Boulevard pretty aggressively, but I liked the transitions and the elliptical feel that I got. It's not an exceptionally easy film to follow. You have to know that the paparazzo looks like Mark David Chapman. He hasn't got an expositional sign on him.

You don't write for actors. Actors come for characters you've made up.