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 Copy Share Image
Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
Bill Klinton was the ultimate rock star as president. I don't think as a result of his presidency we will ever have a rock… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
Certainly on a political and a legislative level, Bill Clinton was effective, but the example that he ultimately left, I think for posterity, tragically,… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking,… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
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… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
I think one of the things that I was struck by was that Joe has the financial wherewithal to go check into some expensive… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around,… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
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 Copy Share
I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is so insidious,… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
There are certainly a lot of sins to be taken on. To take on smoking and movies is a weighty enough thing, I think,… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share
