List of Joe Eszterhas Quotes

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.

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.

Joe Lieberman Frightens Me. Why Should We, An Hollywood Voter, Donate Money To A Man Who Threatens Our Creative Freedom, Our Freedom Of Expression.

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.

You Must Show How Gruesome That Death Is Because If You Don't, Then You Turn Into Some Kind Of Comic Book And Pain, Then Death, Doesn't Have A Consequence, And Pain Doesn't Have A Consequence.

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.

I Always Try To Do True Endings And That's Where I Got Into Trouble Always Because Hollywood Wants To Do Happy Endings.

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.

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.

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.

The-one Of The Odd Things That's Going On With Smoking These Days Is That In The '90s, Smoking At Movies In The '90s, There Were More Movies Showing Smoking Than There Were In The '60s.

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.