Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page in revenge. Real writers sit down and write. Wannabe writers sit around and talk.

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

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

Cigarettes, cigarettes were much tougher. Booze was tough And I had a real drinking problem before as we discovered in the hospital really, but the cigarettes are much tougher and to tell you the truth.

If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.

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

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