I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better.

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

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.

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

Politics has become entertainment.

I was surprised by how warm the response was, even among studio heads, who said they really, we do have to do something about glamourization of smoking.