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.

The thing about movies is if somebody has an idea that works, it's in, and I say that as a screenwriter as well as a director.

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

I learned my job from English dramatists. Tennessee Williams was no good for me, New York stuff was no good to me.

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.

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

If you write a screenplay that gets circulated, you have a bigger readership than any literary novelist. And it's an educated audience as well.