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 always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

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

There's no doubt in my mind that Bill Clinton will stop smoking cigars, will never smoke them again, as a result of what he did with that cigar.

They do the same thing [with cigarette] that they do in the kind of action picture where you know 200 people are killed and then there's no pain.