Balsamic vinaigrette, Tabasco, and giblets. Then let it boil.
We were extremely prescient in that we predicted the Soviet coup before it happened. That was kind of amazing.
Audiences may be stupid, but they are never wrong.
I was always a filmmaker before I was anything else. If I was always anything, I was a storyteller, and it never really made much of a difference to me what medium I worked in.
Once you decide that you're going to have the death of Spock, then how does that affect the other people? Why is it there? I got a lot of stick from a lot of people from the very beginning about the idea of killing Spock. Somebody said, "You can't kill him. " And I said, "Sure you can; the only question is whether you do it well. "
But you have to understand what that really did is that it opened these DVDs to be sources of oral history instead of puff pieces for the studio, because people involved with them being in fear of being sued by somebody, so it became another form of movie history. I mean I didn't plan it, but I'm proud that it happened. Which is probably why they didn't interview me for this DVD.
If you look at the heroes of antiquity and myth, they all have flaws. It's something that they have to overcome; their flaws are something that they have to act in spite of. The challenge is not to defy your fate, but to endure it. That is heroic.
If you spend your life living in fear or doubt, you will never actually live life, and will only be coexisting with the rest of the world.
Some people are so poor, all they have is money.
In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.
When I was a kid, I loved having a book in my hand. I still do. I wasn't a fast reader, but I was a steady reader. I read all of The Bobbsey Twins, Nancy Drew, and Cherry Ames books.