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.
“A place makes a deep impression on you when you're young. It lives with you. It's like your childhood. It fertilises the imagination.”
“A lot of American actors I work with are in character all day long. You can't talk to them. It's Method and the whole thing.”