I never viewed screen drama as a vulgar form, or a lesser one, and I've never written it left-handed.

As a director, you're given a tremendous apparatus to work with, and very great talents are available to you.

I don't trust a lot of popular films because they seem to indicate that people would like to be super-heroes or vampires, and that's the last thing I mean by the useful mirror of art.

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

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.

For me, film has been good because I'm able to work at top crack, working at something I love to do, in the only literary form in which you can still make money. There are no famous novelists, not as novelists used to be famous.

I never write with particular actors in mind.