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

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

There are some young women movie stars who are doing it everywhere, smoking in every movie, sometimes even with placements with a pack of cigarettes.

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.

You must show how gruesome that death is because if you don't, then you turn into some kind of comic book and pain, then death, doesn't have a consequence, and pain doesn't have a consequence.

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

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.