I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.

I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop, he's not going to make one announcement and write one editorial and go away.

I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.

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

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.

There are certainly a lot of sins to be taken on. To take on smoking and movies is a weighty enough thing, I think, and it's one I've experienced, and it's what's caused me to live in-with my voice maimed for the rest of my life.

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.