“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.” ThinkingFeelsTodayStarsIssuesComfortableSmoking Author: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.” ThinkingDoeResultsCancerSexySmoking Author:Joe Eszterhas
“I'm not suggesting at all that we take away all of the characters' vices. I am suggesting that this particular vice is so insidious, so nefarious, and so deadly that simply by glamorizing it or poisoning our young adults, and I think it's a very separate category, but in no way am I suggesting that we move on from banning smoking in movies to banning drinking, you know, or whatever else we want to do.” ThinkingWayWantCharacterMovingYoungParticularAdultsDrinkingYoung AdultVicesSmokingCategoriesSuggestingPoisoningInsidious 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
“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.” ThinkingEnoughVoiceSinTakenSmoking 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
“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.” IfsThinkingShouldShowsHappensKidsPainDiesPiecesTerribleViolentInjured Author:Joe Eszterhas
“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.” ThinkingBookTurnsAudiencePossibilityScreensComicComic Book 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 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.” ThinkingWantStarsResponsibilitySpecialExampleScreensAwfulAppealsThese DaysSmokingMovie StarStop Smoking Author:Joe Eszterhas
“I was very skeptical when he began, and there have been moments where I think he's shown absolute leadership, and I think the jury is out, still out. I haven't made any final decisions on him, but I've been surprised at times. I agree with him about one thing absolutely - George W. Bush said recently that he believed in prayer and exercise. So do I.” ThinkingHas BeensMadeSaidStillsMomentsPrayerDecisionOne ThingHavensExerciseAbsolutesAgreeFinalsSkepticalJury Author:Joe Eszterhas
“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.” ThinkingWayStarsPresidentResultsRocksInvolvedUltimateBillsVietnamPresidencyGet InvolvedRock Star Author:Joe Eszterhas
“Certainly on a political and a legislative level, Bill Clinton was effective, but the example that he ultimately left, I think for posterity, tragically, is going to begin with that single paragraph lead with the White House intern.” ThinkingPoliticalHouseLeftWhiteLevelsExampleBillsClintonWhite HousePosterityParagraph Author: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.” ThinkingKindBigsUsedFeltCasesBrotherSmokingMarijuanaAssaultThink BigPolitically CorrectMilitantSmokers Author:Joe Eszterhas
“From what I've been able to determine, many of our big stars are addicted to tobacco. They want to smoke in movies for the same reason I smoked as I wrote, which is that they think their performance is going to be better.” ThinkingWantReasonBigsAbleStarsPerformancesDetermineSmokeTobacco Author:Joe Eszterhas
“Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.” ThinkingWritingLittlesLostChanceTalkingToo MuchCuttingPhonesHawaiiTalking Too Much Author:Joe Eszterhas
