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.

Anyone I think who - that would go through a cancer ward and would see the result of what smoking does, would never, ever think of smoking is sexy again.

Certainly on a political and a legislative level, Bill Clinton was effective, but the example that he ultimately left, I think for posterity, tragically, is going to begin with that single paragraph lead with the White House intern.

Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

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

There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.