“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.” KnowsSeemsTurnsBitsPayCompanyWonderFocusProductsClaimsIndependentProductionsAdsCigaretteBedroom Author: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.” PeopleThinkingKnowsFactsHelpingEyeCausesMoralSubjectsInvolvedHollywoodBlindGuiltySmokeAddictBlind Eyes Author:Joe Eszterhas
“Assuming that all bad girls smoke. I don't think so. I've been around a lot of bad girls who don't smoke, you know, so I think it's easy to put a cigarette into, you know, into anyone's hands and say, well that makes them a bad boy or a bad girl. There are many more creative ways from a writerly point of view to do that.” ThinkingKnowsWayWellsHandsGirlEasyViewsBoysCreativeAssumingPoint Of ViewSmokeCigaretteBad BoyBad Girl Author:Joe Eszterhas
“They do the same thing [with cigarette] that they do in the kind of action picture where you know 200 people are killed and then there's no pain.” PeopleKnowsKindActionPainCigaretteNo Pain Author:Joe Eszterhas
“I began my addiction when I was 12 years old. By the time 40, 45 years later, when it, you know, it threatened my life and maimed me in terms of my voice, I was so addicted that I was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day.” KnowsYearsVoiceTermFourAddictionSmokingCigarettePacksThreatened Author:Joe Eszterhas
“I think one of the things that I was struck by was that Joe has the financial wherewithal to go check into some expensive clinic, go into rehab and beat these addictions but he didn't. He sort of designed his own, you know, sort of rehabilitation at home. And anybody could do what he did. When he felt like having a cigarette after he ate, he would get up and walk. At cocktail hour when he used to have a drink and watch the news, he stopped watching the news. He couldn't. He couldn't watch the news and not have a drink and a cigarette. He would walk.” ThinkingKnowsHomeUsedFeltHoursWalksWatchesDrinkNewsBeatsAddictionFinancialChecksGet UpExpensiveCigaretteCocktailsRehabRehabilitationClinic Author:Joe Eszterhas
“I changed my diet completely. You know, I'm from Cleveland, so I've always loved sausage and red meat and all of that stuff, so now I find myself not eating any of that, no red meat, no sausage. It's basically a vegetarian diet with a little bit of fish. I drink quarts of carrot juice, quarts of cranberry juice, endless amounts of water and nothing else.” KnowsLittlesStuffBitsWaterChangedAmountDrinkEatingLittle BitRedFishesEndlessMeatDietsVegetarianJuiceCarrotsSausageClevelandVegetarian DietRed MeatCranberries Author:Joe Eszterhas
“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.” KnowsGivingWaitingVoiceOpinionFocusGroupsHollywoodScriptsExecutivesPollsConsensusCabinetsDynamicsSaying NothingOpinion PollsFocus Groups Author:Joe Eszterhas
