From A Writing Point Of View, You

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.

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.

The Charm Of Smoking A Cigarette From The Point Of View Of The People Who Smoked Them, And I Was One Of Those People For Many, Many Years, Is An Amazing Pleasure And A Hit That Some People Say, And I've Never Done Heroin, But Some People Say That It Rivals The Heroin Hit, So There Is That Pleasure. The-it Kills You The Same Way That Heroin Kills You.

If They Gave A Nobel Peace Prize For Work Against Big Tobacco, Not Just In The Industry, But Also With The California Tax Initiative, He Really Deserves One.