I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking, not to do it up on screen because the example that's being set is really an awful example.

I think the main issue is that a lot of the stars today are very addicted, and they simply feel more comfortable smoking as they act.

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.

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

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.

Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression.