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

The-one of the odd things that's going on with smoking these days is that in the '90s, smoking at movies in the '90s, there were more movies showing smoking than there were in the '60s.

Bill Klinton was the ultimate rock star as president. I don't think as a result of his presidency we will ever have a rock star as president again. In the same way that we will never get involved in another Vietnam.

I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

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.

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

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.