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 …

- Joe Eszterhas

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

- 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

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 c…

- 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

Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.

- Joe Eszterhas

I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.

- Joe Eszterhas

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,…

- 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