Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop.

Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression.

I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill.

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 just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.

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

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