I think that scripts should be published, but they are published, really, because when you're a screenwriter, your stuff ends up in samizdat form on thousands and thousands of desks and shelves across the industry.

When they see you get what you want and move on, quickly, you've done a contract with the crew from that point. In Britain if the sparks call you Guv on day two, you never need an award of any other kind.

Even though a screenplay is performed only once, unlike other forms of drama, it's still a performance in itself, and unless it's a great performance, odds are that actors will not come, and a movie will never be made.

I'm interested in stories about human beings. I don't care where or when they are set.

Dialogue is used to reveal not what we want to say, but what we are trying to hide.

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.

Wisdom is not having illusions, especially anything in your own mind that elevates you above others.