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.

You evolve in the ways in which you are precious. When you are the director, you are also continuing to write on the floor as you go along.

It wasn't just British gangster films that really did for me as a kid, personally, it was British films in general.

I never write with particular actors in mind.

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.

Redrafts can be very lucrative for me, but you must understand that if films go through many drafts or writers it's because someone doesn't want to do the picture and never will.

I went into directing having observed and learned from the best. There was a certain standard of procedure. I found that I was equal to it. I thoroughly enjoyed directing, I liked it a lot. It's very satisfactory to see that you can do it. The art takes care of itself.