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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.

Joe Eszterhas

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Joe Eszterhas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 23
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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.
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Before I would view Rob Reiner as this really annoying pest. Every time he'd come on TV or talking about smoking, I found my blood pressure go up. I just met-really met Rob for the first time last week and told him how much I admire him. He's done more than anyone else in the industry.
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I think that Hollywood is sort of guilty of having a moral blind eye on this subject. While at the same time, you know, being involved in a lot of liberal causes and being involved very militantly, Hollywood is, in fact, guilty of helping to addict people to smoke.
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Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.
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I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.
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That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
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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.
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Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like In The Bedroom, you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.
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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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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.
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I do want to make a special appeal to women movie stars to, I think, have a special responsibility these days to stop smoking, not to do it up on screen because the example that's being set is really an awful example.
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I haven't really spoken to God since I was a boy and I've rediscovered god and prayer in the process and all of that has come together.
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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.
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Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
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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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I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.
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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.
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Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.
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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.
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Sirens wailed the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.
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