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...”

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

“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 c...”

“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.”

“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.”

“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...”

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