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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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"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."
"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."
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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."
"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."
"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."
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