“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 always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.” WantTryingTroubleHollywoodHappy Endings Author:Joe Eszterhas
“No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.” WantStarsCan DoSmokeMovie Star 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
“My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings.” WantWritingHas BeensSaidFatherImmigrationApplicationCould Have BeenPrinter 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
