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Joe Eszterhas

"There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies."

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A.E. Samaan

"Although charismatic, James Dean is no Harrison Ford. In the majority of his movies, sooner or later he got the crap beaten out of him."

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"The only reason anyone goes to Broadway is because they can't get work in the movies."

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"Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine."

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"I have a very busy life, and not many people who have a career and four kids go out a lot to the movies."

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"I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other."

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"Frank is such a great visual storyteller, that if you study his artwork you see that his Sin City books are already the best movies never seen on the big screen."

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"Luck, I never looked to make difficult movies on purpose. You make the films you can make."

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"Movies are nice, but there are very few roles for women and most of them are sluts or something."

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"Even when I was a little kid, I always said I would be in the movies one day, and damned if I didn't make it."

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"It took me 20 years of making movies to learn how to do it."

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Joe Eszterhas
"The terrible, diabolic thing with this disease is that you are always looking behind your shoulder every couple months with the most recent checkup to see whether there is any sign of it, and I thank God to say at this point there is not."

God

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Joe Eszterhas
"Politics has become entertainment."

Politics

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Joe Eszterhas
"There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies."

Movies

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Joe Eszterhas
"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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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."

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Joe Eszterhas
"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."

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Joe Eszterhas
"I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer."

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Joe Eszterhas
"That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places."

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Joe Eszterhas
"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."

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Joe Eszterhas
"Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie."

Politics

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