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Politics has become entertainment.
Joe Eszterhas
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Joe Eszterhas
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: November 23
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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.
Joe Eszterhas
Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
Joe Eszterhas
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.
Joe Eszterhas
I was surprised by how warm the response was, even among studio heads, who said they really, we do have to do something about glamourization of smoking.
Joe Eszterhas
I was a militant smoker, and in my case, I think I particularly used smoking because what I felt was a kind of politically correct big brother assault on smoking.
Joe Eszterhas
The-one of the odd things that's going on with smoking these days is that in the '90s, smoking at movies in the '90s, there were more movies showing smoking than there were in the '60s.
Joe Eszterhas
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
I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
Joe Eszterhas
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.
Joe Eszterhas
There are certainly a lot of sins to be taken on. To take on smoking and movies is a weighty enough thing, I think, and it's one I've experienced, and it's what's caused me to live in-with my voice maimed for the rest of my life.
Joe Eszterhas
No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.
Joe Eszterhas
Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.
Joe Eszterhas
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
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.
Joe Eszterhas
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
I have been an accomplice to the murders of untold numbers of human beings. I am admitting this only because I have made a deal with God. Spare me, I said, and I will try to stop others from committing the same crimes I did.
Joe Eszterhas
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.
Joe Eszterhas
Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.
Joe Eszterhas
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
Joe Eszterhas
Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.
Joe Eszterhas