“The charm of smoking a cigarette from the point of view of the people who smoked them, and I was one of those people for many, many years, is an amazing pleasure and a hit that some people say, and I've never done heroin, but some people say that it rivals the heroin hit, so there is that pleasure. The-it kills you the same way that heroin kills you.” PeopleWayYearsDonePleasureViewsPoint Of ViewCharmSmokingCigaretteRivalsHeroin 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
“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
“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
“I just wanted to make sure that what I write is what appears on screen, to not have some idiot change it on its way to the screen.” WayWritingWantedScreensIdiot Author:Joe Eszterhas
