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" Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit. "
Joe Eszterhas
Cigarettes
Behaviour
Habit
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" 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. "
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Politics
Voice
Saying
" 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
Because
Said
Want
" 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
Public
Candidate
Front
" 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
Used
Think
Big
" Politics has become entertainment. "
Joe Eszterhas
Become
Entertainment
Politics
" I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer. "
Joe Eszterhas
Producer
Never
Loyalty
" 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. "
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Some
Just
Idiot
" 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
Lot
" Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars. "
Joe Eszterhas
Our
Things
Stars
" I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head. "
Joe Eszterhas
Religious
Bond
God
" There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies. "
Joe Eszterhas
Out
Demanding
Movies
" I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime. "
Joe Eszterhas
Her
Writer
Past
" I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness. "
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Shocking
Worry
Time
" 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
Stars
Think
Better
" 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
Think
Chance
Good
" That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places. "
Joe Eszterhas
Drinking
Holy
Thought
" The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants. "
Joe Eszterhas
People
Been
Marketing
" 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
See
You
Thank God
" 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
Heart
Lost
Brain
" I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power. "
Joe Eszterhas
Been
Corruption
Always
" 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
Together
Saying
Help