Quote

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

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Joe Eszterhas
Age: 79
Born: 1944
Born: November 23
Journalist
Screenwriter
Writer
Csakanydoroszlo
Six
Trouble
Came
Stills
Still
Country

More quotes by Joe Eszterhas

Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
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
Image
I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
Joe Eszterhas
Image
Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
Joe Eszterhas
Image
There are certainly a lot of sins to be taken on. To take on smoking and movies is a weighty enough thing, I think, and it's one I've experienced, and it's what's caused me to live in-with my voice maimed for the rest of my life.
Joe Eszterhas
Image
I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.
Joe Eszterhas
Image
I always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.
Joe Eszterhas
Image
I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.
Joe Eszterhas
Image
Bill Klinton was the ultimate rock star as president. I don't think as a result of his presidency we will ever have a rock star as president again. In the same way that we will never get involved in another Vietnam.
Joe Eszterhas
Image
You 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 Eszterhas
Image
Politics has become entertainment.
Joe Eszterhas
Image
I think the main issue is that a lot of the stars today are very addicted, and they simply feel more comfortable smoking as they act.
Joe Eszterhas
Image
Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.
Joe Eszterhas
Image
That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
Joe Eszterhas
Image
Before I would view Rob Reiner as this really annoying pest. Every time he'd come on TV or talking about smoking, I found my blood pressure go up. I just met-really met Rob for the first time last week and told him how much I admire him. He's done more than anyone else in the industry.
Joe Eszterhas
Image
Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like In The Bedroom, you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.
Joe Eszterhas
Image
Joe Lieberman frightens me. Why should we, an Hollywood voter, donate money to a man who threatens our creative freedom, our freedom of expression.
Joe Eszterhas
Image
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