There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies..

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars..

I think that Hollywood is sort of guilty of having a moral blind eye on this subject. While at the same time, you know, being involved in a lot of li….

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom..

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….

My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be ….

Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie..

I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assaul….

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

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,….

Cigarettes, cigarettes were much tougher. Booze was tough And I had a real drinking problem before as we discovered in the hospital really, but the c….

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

I have been an accomplice to the murders of untold numbers of human beings. I am admitting this only because I have made a deal with God. Spare me, I….

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants..

Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page in revenge. Real writers sit down and wri….

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit..

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 ….

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

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head..

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..

Politics has become entertainment..