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József A. "Joe" Eszterhas (/ˈɛstərhɑːz/; Hungarian: [ˈjoːʒɛf ˈɛstɛrhaːʃ]; born November 23, 1944) is a Hungarian-American writer. He wrote the screenplays for the films Flashdance, Jagged Edge, Basic Instinct and Showgirls. He has also written several books, including an autobiography entitled Hollywood Animal, American Rhapsody and Crossbearer: A Memoir of Faith.

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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.

Annoying, Blood, Found, Talking, Views

Certainly on a political and a legislative level, Bill Clinton was effective, but the example that he ultimately left, I think for posterity, tragically, is going to begin with that single paragraph lead with the White House intern.

House, Left, Legislative, Political, Thinking, White

Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

Behaviour, Cigarette, Cigarettes, Habit, Part

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.

Character, Drinking, Insidious, Moving, Poisoning, Think

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.

Book, Comic, Possibility, Screen, Thinking

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.

Vegetarian Diet, Water, Littles, Cleveland, Red

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.

Boys, Prayer, Process, Spoken, Together

I started making a point earlier that women's cancer rates are skyrocketing, and we have some women movie stars, young women movie stars, who are smoking in many of their movies.

Cancer, Movie, Smoking, Stars

Actors always loved props and-so instead of a hat or an umbrella, they feel really comfortable with a cigarette as a prop.

Actors, Cigarette, Comfortable, Hats, Props

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.

Real, Drinking, Tough, Tell, Tougher

I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.

Happy, Hollywood, Trouble, Trying, Want

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.

Brother, Case, Kind, Marijuana, Thinking

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.

Bill, Cigars, Doubt, Mind, Smoking, Stop

No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.

Movie, Movie Star, Star, Stars, Tell, Want

A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.

Aimed, Gun, Hands, Star, Stars

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.

Brain, Heart, Lost, Soul, Team, Writing

They do the same thing [with cigarette] that they do in the kind of action picture where you know 200 people are killed and then there's no pain.

Action, Kind, Know, Pain, People, Thing

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.

Idiot, Screen, Way, Writing

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.

Amazing, Charm, People, Smoked, Views, Years

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.

Cancer, See, Sexy, Smoking, Thinking, Ward

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