Quotes from Joe Eszterhas

I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.

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 always try to do true endings and that's where I got into trouble always because Hollywood wants to do happy endings.

No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want.

That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

There are some young women movie stars who are doing it everywhere, smoking in every movie, sometimes even with placements with a pack of cigarettes.

If they gave a Nobel Peace Prize for work against big tobacco, not just in the industry, but also with the California tax initiative, he really deserves one.

I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.

The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.

Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his position to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.