Joe Eszterhas Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.”
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“Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.”
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“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.”
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“I was six when we came to this country. When I was 14 or so, I still had a lot of trouble with it.”
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“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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“I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.”
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“I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.”
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“I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.”
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“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.”
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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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“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.”
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“I have been an accomplice to the murders of untold numbers of human beings. I am admitting this only because I have made a deal with God. Spare me, I said, and I will try to stop others from committing the same crimes I did.”
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“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.”
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“There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.”
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“Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.”
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“The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.”
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“Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.”
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“A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.”
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“Meanwhile, politics is about getting a candidate in front of the public as a star, politics as rock'n'roll, politics as a movie.”
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“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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“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.”
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“That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.”
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“I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.”
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“Let's make Joe Lieberman accountable for his rhetoric. Not a penny more until he 'clarifies' his positions to the satisfaction of our creative freedom.”
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