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

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

There are certainly a lot of sins to be taken on. To take on smoking and movies is a weighty enough thing, I think, and it's one I've experienced, and it's what's caused me to live in-with my voice maimed for the rest of my life.

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.

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

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.

No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.