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"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
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"Hope doesn't require a massive chain where heavy links of logic hold it together. A thin wire will do...just strong enough to get us through the night until the winds die down."
"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters."
"Sometimes the past seems too big for the present to hold."
"Don't be unnecessarily burdened by the past. Go on closing chapters that you have read."
"Drop the past. The past is no more, and the future is not yet."
"Past is aipsom if you learned from the past."
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"I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars."
"I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it."
"Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie."
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