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… — Joe Eszterhas Copy Share Image
Anyone I think who - that would go through a cancer ward and would see the result of what smoking does, would never, ever think of smoking is sexy again. — 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
