Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.

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.

Certainly on a political and a legislative level, Bill Clinton was effective, but the example that he ultimately left, I think for posterity, tragically, is going to begin with that single paragraph lead with the White House intern.

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.

There are some young women movie stars who are doing it everywhere, smoking in every movie, sometimes even with placements with a pack of cigarettes.

Assuming that all bad girls smoke. I don't think so. I've been around a lot of bad girls who don't smoke, you know, so I think it's easy to put a cigarette into, you know, into anyone's hands and say, well that makes them a bad boy or a bad girl. There are many more creative ways from a writerly point of view to do that.

A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.