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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 Eszterhas
Age: 80
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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Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
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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.
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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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I think to put death on screen where it isn't that turns it into comic book time and there I think by desensitizing an audience, you really do open the possibility that someone is going to kill.
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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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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 have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
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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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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 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 had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
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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 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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