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.

You just have to know what you want and what you're doing and it leads to a kind of general well-being, which I think you sensed when you were there.

I came into screenwriting from an odd direction, because the first screenplay that I read was and is better as writing than the top one percent of literary novels.

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 think probably everybody works most on the beginning and the ending.

I don't like scripts leaking. On the other hand, the more real attention a script gets, the better.