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
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I'm haunted by the fact that I may have caused lives to be lost.
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Actually, I didn't know that. I like to name my characters after baseball players. Alan Trammell of the Tigers is one of my favorites.
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Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
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There's no doubt in my mind that Bill Clinton will stop smoking cigars, will never smoke them again, as a result of what he did with that cigar.
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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.
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I was very skeptical when he began, and there have been moments where I think he's shown absolute leadership, and I think the jury is out, still out. I haven't made any final decisions on him, but I've been surprised at times. I agree with him about one thing absolutely-George W. Bush said recently that he believed in prayer and exercise. So do I.
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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.
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There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.
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From a writing point of view, you now have teams of screenwriters working with a director. What's lost in the process is the power of that one heart, brain, gut and soul that makes something an original piece of writing.
entertainment
Politics has become entertainment.
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Before I would view Rob Reiner as this really annoying pest. Every time he'd come on TV or talking about smoking, I found my blood pressure go up. I just met-really met Rob for the first time last week and told him how much I admire him. He's done more than anyone else in the industry.
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I changed my diet completely. You know, I'm from Cleveland, so I've always loved sausage and red meat and all of that stuff, so now I find myself not eating any of that, no red meat, no sausage. It's basically a vegetarian diet with a little bit of fish. I drink quarts of carrot juice, quarts of cranberry juice, endless amounts of water and nothing else.
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I haven't really spoken to God since I was a boy and I've rediscovered god and prayer in the process and all of that has come together.
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I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.