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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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"Whether you need to remember the past or not, It changes nothing but gives the best choice for the future that makes You always to remember your past."
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"The only thing to prevent what's past is to put a stop to it before it happens."
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"What is past is prologue."
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"I've had a pilot every single year that didn't sell for the past four years, that'll smack you in the back of the head. I had a really good one last year; I wouldn't have done the play in New York if I had gotten that one."
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"What was the point of spying if you couldn't keep it a secret?"
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"I'm really obsessed with the past."
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"I found with this record I had to really be strong-willed, because in the past I've tended to tinker and add a thing or take a thing away, and nearly always been wrong."
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"In the past, two colleagues died each season. It was generally accepted this could happen."
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"The West is dead... you may lose a sweetheart but you won't forget her."
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"The present in New York is so powerful that the past is lost."
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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."
People
"I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer."
Creativity
"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."
Past
"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."
Family
"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
"There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies."
Movies
"I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power."
Power
"The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not."
God
"Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit."
Habit
"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."
Power
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