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I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
Joe Eszterhas
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Joe Eszterhas
Age: 80
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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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 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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I will focus on smoking in movies and with the amount of time that I have left in the world, I will do the best I can to stop smoking in movies and also to help people stop smoking, just normal ordinary people who may need help.
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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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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.
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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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Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.
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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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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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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 star as president again. In the same way that we will never get involved in another Vietnam.
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Sirens wailed the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.
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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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Politics has become entertainment.
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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.
Joe Eszterhas
I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.
Joe Eszterhas
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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Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page in revenge. Real writers sit down and write. Wannabe writers sit around and talk.
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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.
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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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