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.

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

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

I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.

I haven't really spoken to God since I was a boy and I've rediscovered god and prayer in the process and all of that has come together.

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

I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is so insidious, so nefarious, and so deadly that simply by glamorizing it or poisoning our young adults, and I think it's a very separate category, but in no way am I suggesting that we move on from banning smoking in movies to banning drinking, you know, or whatever else we want to do.