Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like "In The Bedroom", you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.

I haven't really spoken to God since I was a boy and I've rediscovered god and prayer in the process and all of that has come together.

I think the main issue is that a lot of the stars today are very addicted, and they simply feel more comfortable smoking as they act.

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.

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.

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.

A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.