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That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
Joe Eszterhas
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There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.
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I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.
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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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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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I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
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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.
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