Aaron's the guy you follow into battle. He's broad, he's got a strong chin ? a man's-man kind of persona. Very few actors ... can say subversive things and come off charming. Robert Redford and Paul Newman were guys who could do that. |
For some reason, tobacco really makes people mad. It's not like other issues of vice. I don't know exactly why, but I can feel it, and I think that's why the book works so well. |
I didn't want it to be another one of those movies. I could have made it five years ago if I had changed the ending. |
I'd like Hard C to be a modern day National Lampoon -- a name that is immediately recognized as a standard for unique subversive comedy. |
Politically correctness is just a polite way of saying lying, and they're tired of turning on the TV and seeing people who are so terrified of their arguments being invalidated by a simple word choice that they don't say anything. |
The film has less to do with smoking and more to do with parenting . |
There were a couple of thousand people who saw the film at Sundance without the Katie Holmes sex scene. I implore all of them to now go back and see the movie with the Katie Holmes sex scene. |
This is a movie more about spin and talk and lobbying than it is about cigarettes. |
We were about 30 minutes into our screening when I noticed a scene was missing. I assure you it was a projectionist, not Tom Cruise. |
We were sitting there in shock. And I turned to other people who had worked on the film, and we were completely confused. But the audience didn't seem to notice or care. |
You know that guy who could get any girl? That's me, on crack. |