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

There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

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.

Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

What Hollywood has done through the years is glamorized it even more, made it sexy, made it sensuous, and dwelled on those pleasure aspects, completing ignoring the fact that Hollywood as an industry, was pointing the gun at young people - pointing a gun at them when they were 12 to 14 years.