The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
What Hollywood has done through the years is glamorized it even more, made it sexy, made it sensuous, and dwelled on those… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I will focus on smoking in movies and with the amount of time that I have left in the world, I will… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
I think that Hollywood is sort of guilty of having a moral blind eye on this subject. While at the same time,… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission... I really think if people started banding together and saying… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
They do the same thing [with cigarette] that they do in the kind of action picture where you know 200 people are… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places. — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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