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

Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

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.

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.

From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.

Anyone I think who - that would go through a cancer ward and would see the result of what smoking does, would never, ever think of smoking is sexy again.

I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking, not to do it up on screen because the example that's being set is really an awful example.