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"I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer."
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"The future is created by those who have a great imagination and the will to make it a reality by their actions."
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"The design of a book is the pattern of a reality controlled and shaped by the mind of a writer."
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"Skill gives you legs to jog, talent gives you legs to run, brilliance gives you legs to sprint, but genius gives you wings to fly."
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"For you to make your creative work creative, you must seek creativity from the creator."
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"Imagination is a glorious wonder."
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"Writing the same kind of material is no guarantee you'll be working from the same ethos so that writers from different fields are just as likely to have an understanding of each other's work as someone working in the same genre."
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"Every time a man puts a new idea across he finds ten men who thought of it before he did - but they only thought of it."
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"I want to paint the rest of my days with the best colors."
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"It does not need to be perfect - or technically correct - to be magic."
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"What may be myth in one world may always be fact in some other."
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"I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it."
Nation
"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."
Politics
"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."
Movies
"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."
People
"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."
Change
"Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars."
Success
"I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness."
Time
"The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants."
People
"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."
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"Politics has become entertainment."
Politics
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