The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.
Very often, I don't make it through moments of recording because it is genuinely funny and absolutely ridiculous that a 60-year-old grown man is making these noises.
Writing the last page of the first draft is the most enjoyable moment in writing. It's one of the most enjoyable moments in life, period.
As the years have gone on, I find one of the dangers of watching dailies... is you fall in love with moments.
I look for those moments that are "gee whiz" moments. There's some "gee whiz" stories in our show, and they can't be written like A-1 in the Times. They have to be written more like Page 6 in the Post.
The freshest moments in my films have always been with unknown actors.
Being a mom's so empowering and incredible. I'm one of those people who believes that life brings things to you at a certain time for a certain reason, and if you just go with it, that's where the best moments come from.
There's moments where I want to break down and cry, but not give up.
Everyone thinks they can write a play; you just write down what happened to you. But the art of it is drawing from all the moments of your life.
That's what I do and I enjoy even the hateful moments of a relationship where two people or four people come together to make a bigger mess than originally intended.
Film acting is really the trick of doing moments. You rarely do a take that lasts more than 20 seconds. You really earn your spurs acting onstage. I needed to do that for myself. I would hate to say at the end of everything that I never did a stage play.
Poetry is the record of the best and happiest moments of the happiest and best minds.
I certainly wouldn't say that my life is a disaster, but there have been moments where I've felt like that.
Life all comes down to a few moments. This is one of them.
In my proudest moments, I think I had a real hand in the creative force of making "Star Trek." But most of the time, I don't think about it.