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"That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places."
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"In the '70s, everybody thought drugs were just good times. People didn't really know about drug addiction, or that such a thing existed. When I grew up in the '70s I thought you had to take drugs. It was almost like I didn't think you had a choice."
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"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 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."

"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."

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

"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."

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

"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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