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. Joe Eszterhas More Quotes by Joe Eszterhas More Quotes From 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 loyalty producers writing Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit. Joe Eszterhas cigarette habit behaviour 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. Joe Eszterhas team heart writing I think that Hollywood is sort of guilty of having a moral blind eye on this subject. While at the same time, you know, being involved in a lot of liberal causes and being involved very militantly, Hollywood is, in fact, guilty of helping to addict people to smoke. Joe Eszterhas eye people thinking Politics has become entertainment. Joe Eszterhas entertainment My father could have been deported because on his immigration application he said that he was a printer, obviously because he didn't want them to be checking his writings. Joe Eszterhas immigration writing father 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 six trouble country I've seen Joe take on many battles, cancer being one of them, and the determination that he has, and he won't stop, he's not going to make one announcement and write one editorial and go away. Joe Eszterhas cancer determination writing 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 idiot writing way I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power. Joe Eszterhas power-corruption power-and-corruption corruption I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. Joe Eszterhas prime directors past I was surprised by how warm the response was, even among studio heads, who said they really, we do have to do something about glamourization of smoking. Joe Eszterhas response smoking said I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star. Joe Eszterhas rock-n-roll rocks stars I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head. Joe Eszterhas my-own religious That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places. Joe Eszterhas bars drinking missing 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. Joe Eszterhas tough real drinking There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies. Joe Eszterhas crowds marijuana smoking Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars. Joe Eszterhas rocks congratulations stars The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants. Joe Eszterhas marketing taken people I think one of the things that I was struck by was that Joe has the financial wherewithal to go check into some expensive clinic, go into rehab and beat these addictions but he didn't. He sort of designed his own, you know, sort of rehabilitation at home. And anybody could do what he did. When he felt like having a cigarette after he ate, he would get up and walk. At cocktail hour when he used to have a drink and watch the news, he stopped watching the news. He couldn't. He couldn't watch the news and not have a drink and a cigarette. He would walk. Joe Eszterhas addiction home thinking
