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

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.

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.

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 have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like "In The Bedroom", you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.

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