Joe Eszterhas Quotes - Page 2

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

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Gun, Hands

  "Hollywood's Responsibility for Smoking Deaths" by Joe Eszterhas, www.nytimes.com. August 9, 2002.

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• 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 assault on smoking.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Brother, Marijuana, Thinking

  "Joe Eszterhas talks Hollywood smoke screen". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2002.

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• That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Drinking, Missing, Bars

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• I began my addiction when I was 12 years old. By the time 40, 45 years later, when it, you know, it threatened my life and maimed me in terms of my voice, I was so addicted that I was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Years, Voice, Addiction

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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

  Joe Eszterhas

  Religious, My Own

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• Politics has become entertainment.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Entertainment

  "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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• 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 write. Wannabe writers sit around and talk.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Revenge, Real, Writing

  Joe Eszterhas (2013). “The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: The Screenwriter as God!”, p.124, St. Martin's Press

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• I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Trying, Hollywood, Want

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Corruption, Power Corruption, Power And Corruption

  "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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• I think it's terrible to show that to kids. It's - I think you should - if you - if you do a piece where something violent happens and someone dies or is badly injured, you must show the pain.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Pain, Kids, Thinking

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• 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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Pain, Book, Kind

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Book, Thinking, Possibility

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a moral responsibility in terms of smoking, not to show smoking in movies.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Responsibility, People, Smoking

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Want, Movie Star

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I will focus on smoking in movies and with the amount of time that I have left in the world, I will do the best I can to stop smoking in movies and also to help people stop smoking, just normal ordinary people who may need help.

  Joe Eszterhas

  People, Focus, Smoking

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• There are certainly a lot of sins to be taken on. To take on smoking and movies is a weighty enough thing, I think, and it's one I've experienced, and it's what's caused me to live in-with my voice maimed for the rest of my life.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Taken, Thinking, Voice

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• 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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Smoking, Said, Response

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• All has changed, thanks to Joe Eszterhas' life-threatening battle with throat cancer. He announced in "The New York Times" that he and Hollywood had blood on their hands and now Eszterhas is crusading to stop Hollywood's glamorization of smoking.

  Joe Eszterhas

  New York, Cancer, Blood

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of those people for many, many years, is an amazing pleasure and a hit that some people say, and I've never done heroin, but some people say that it rivals the heroin hit, so there is that pleasure. The-it kills you the same way that heroin kills you.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Views, Years, People

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Men, Expression, Creative

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

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• What Hollywood has done through the years is glamorized it even more, made it sexy, made it sensuous, and dwelled on those pleasure aspects, completing ignoring the fact that Hollywood as an industry, was pointing the gun at young people - pointing a gun at them when they were 12 to 14 years.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Sexy, Gun, Years

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• In the olden days, of course, cigarette companies would pay to have their product advertised in movies and to have actors smoke cigarettes.[Ronald Reagan used to do it.]

  Joe Eszterhas

  Actors, Pay, Cigarette

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• 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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Thinking, Issues

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .

  Joe Eszterhas

  Smoking, Acting, Phrases

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Actors, Hats, Cigarette

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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