Quotes by John Logan

“Music is the soul of language.”

“Thou hast no sorrow in thy song, / No winter in thy year.”

“beer extreme...”

“Oh, my God - I am really shaping the destiny of these characters. Theres Patrick as Jean-Luc Picard, and hes now going to do a scene that I wrote. So that for me was the biggest sort of fan/professional synthesis.”

“Id spent 10 years learning my craft, and Im just a professional writer, and how Im perceived doesnt matter to me in the slightest - because I dont live in L.A., I dont go to parties, I dont go to openings - I just keep my head down and do my job.”

“Theyre both such great directors. Ridley, of course, is very visual; he brings a world of visual creativity to the work, as well as great emotional truth and sincerity. And Scorsese is just great as the synapses flash in his mind - you just stand there and try to grab them!”

“I chose to do this because I am a fan. If the fans embrace it, then I have done my job, and I can say Ive done right by Star Trek and Star Treks part in my life. If they reject what Ive done, then Ive made a serious miscalculation about what other fans like me want.”

“They hit the ball from top to bottom with line drive. We lost, but we didnt play that bad. It was just a case where the other team was so dominant.”

“I liked watching their team play, ... I didnt like losing to them of course, but you always like watching a team like that play.”

“I never realized that I didnt practice hard, ... But I guess hes just trying to get me ready to play.”

Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.

When I was your age, art was a lonely thing: no galleries, no collecting, no critics, no money. We didnt have mentors. We didnt have parents. We were alone. But it was a great time, because we had nothing to lose and a vision to gain.

You have a lot to learn, young man. Philosophy. Theology. Literature. Poetry. Drama. History. Archeology. Anthropology. Mythology. Music. These are your tools as much as brush and pigment. You cannot be an artist until you are civilized. You cannot be civilized until you learn. To be civilized is to know where you belong in the continuum of our art and your world. To surmount the past, you must know the past.

But a generation that does not aspire to seriousness, to meaning, is unworthy to walk in the shadow of those who have gone before, I mean those who have struggled and surmounted, I mean those who have aspired, I mean Rembrandt, I mean Turner, I mean Michelangelo and Matisse … I mean obviously Rothko.

Everyone likes everything nowadays. They like the television and the phonograph and the shampoo and the soda pop and the Cracker Jack. Everything becomes everything else and its all nice and pretty and LIKABLE. Everything is fun in the sun! Wheres the discernment? Wheres the arbitration that separates what I LIKE from what I RESPECT, what I deem WORTHY, what has... listen to me now... SIGNIFICANCE.

And if I sit in that room at the top of the house and I think about my life and if I shut my eyes from time to time and imagine being warm in the summer and I hear the bees buzzing and for a moment I truly am Alice in Wonderland, do you have the heart to tell me I am not?

I grew up loving monsters. Im just a total monster geek. When I was a kid, I had the Aurora monster models, and I would make them. I loved the Universal horror movies and the Hammer movies. I just had an affinity for them.

The reason that Im a writer today is because of Shakespeare and falling in love with Shakespeare when I was 8. That was through the movies, actually - through Oliviers Hamlet. That was the first thing that got me to fall in love with Shakespeare and movies and everything in one big preadolescent rush.

I couldnt write a happy movie or romantic comedy to save my life. Yes, Noel Cowards an idol, but his plays are serious to me. Private Lives and Design for Living both have an edge. Without psychoanalyzing myself, I think I exorcise my demons in my work.

“Everything worthwhile ends. We are in the perpetual process now: creation, maturation, cessation.”