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I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

Joe Eszterhas

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Joe Eszterhas
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 23
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I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.
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And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet.
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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.
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From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.
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I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
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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.
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