Before I would view Rob Reiner as this really annoying pest. Every time he'd come on TV or talking about smoking, I found my blood pressure go up. I just met-really met Rob for the first time last week and told him how much I admire him. He's done more than anyone else in the industry.

I started making a point earlier that women's cancer rates are skyrocketing, and we have some women movie stars, young women movie stars, who are smoking in many of their movies.

Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.

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

Politics has become entertainment.

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

I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.