A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.
Joe EszterhasYou must show how gruesome that death is because if you don't, then you turn into some kind of comic book and pain, then death, doesn't have a consequence, and pain doesn't have a consequence.
Joe EszterhasFact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.
Joe Eszterhas