Joe Eszterhas
Joe Eszterhas
József A. "Joe" Eszterhasis a Hungarian-American writer. He has worked on 16 films that have grossed over two billion dollars. He has also written several non-fiction books, including an autobiography entitled Hollywood Animal, American Rhapsody and Crossbearer: A Memoir of Faith...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 November 1944
voice giving focus
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.
stars thinking want
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.
stars congratulations rocks
Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.
stars responsibility thinking
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.
taken people marketing
The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.
blood pearls revolution
Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.
stars gun hands
A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.
stars want movie-star
No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want .
behaviour habit cigarette
Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
worry political shocking
I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.
brother thinking smoking
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.
responsibility people smoking
Joe Lieberman was threatening censorship. What I'm arguing is that if the creative people in Hollywood themselves have a responsibility, have a moral responsibility in terms of smoking, not to show smoking in movies.
drinking missing holy-places
That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
religious my-own
I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.