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
sexy cancer thinking
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.
hats actors cigarette
Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop.
smoking acting phrases
Bette Davis had a phrase that called it "cigarette smoking acting" .
stars thinking issues
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.
independent focus pay
Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like "In The Bedroom", you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.
actors pay cigarette
In the olden days, of course, cigarette companies would pay to have their product advertised in movies and to have actors smoke cigarettes.[Ronald Reagan used to do it.]
sexy gun years
What Hollywood has done through the years is glamorized it even more, made it sexy, made it sensuous, and dwelled on those pleasure aspects, completing ignoring the fact that Hollywood as an industry, was pointing the gun at young people - pointing a gun at them when they were 12 to 14 years.
views years people
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.
drinking moving character
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, or whatever else we want to do.
eye thinking people
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.
smoking odd-things odd
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.
smoking said response
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.
real drinking tough
Cigarettes, cigarettes were much tougher. Booze was tough And I had a real drinking problem before as we discovered in the hospital really, but the cigarettes are much tougher and to tell you the truth.
california initiative bigs
If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, Rob Reiner really deserves one.