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I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.
Joe Eszterhas
Now on a personal level with things like the California Tax Commission… I really think if people started banding together and saying no to this it could snowball and that could really help.
Joe Eszterhas
I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.
Joe Eszterhas
Every time I flicked channels, there I was, talking. I was talking too much and writing too little. So Naomi and I went to Hawaii. The phone was cut off and we lost touch. This gave me the chance to have a good think about my life.
Joe Eszterhas
I began my addiction when I was 12 years old. By the time 40, 45 years later, when it, you know, it threatened my life and maimed me in terms of my voice, I was so addicted that I was smoking four packs of cigarettes a day.
Joe Eszterhas
There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.
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.
Joe Eszterhas
Politics has become entertainment.
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.
Joe Eszterhas
I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.
Joe Eszterhas
I have only one loyalty – to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
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.
Joe Eszterhas
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.
Joe Eszterhas
I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
Joe Eszterhas
The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.
Joe Eszterhas
Let’s make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he ‘clarifies’ his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.
Joe Eszterhas
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.
Joe Eszterhas
I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.
Joe Eszterhas
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.
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.
Joe Eszterhas