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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.
Joe Eszterhas
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Joe Eszterhas
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 23
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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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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 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.
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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.
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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 frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression.
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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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I think it's terrible to show that to kids. It's - I think you should - if you - if you do a piece where something violent happens and someone dies or is badly injured, you must show the pain.
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I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
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Politics has become entertainment.
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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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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.
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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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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
No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.
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
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
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.
Joe Eszterhas
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
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Sirens wailed the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.
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