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" Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission... I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help. "

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" From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing. "

" I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness. "

" There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies. "

" That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places. "

" My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings. "

" I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen. "

" Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie. "

" The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants. "

" Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit. "

" From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better. "

" I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer. "

" I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it. "

" I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head. "

" I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking. "

" And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet. "

" Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life. "

" Politics has become entertainment. "

" Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars. "

" I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power. "

" I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star. "

" I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. "