Joe Eszterhas quotes
-
“I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a producer.”
-- Joe EszterhasSource : "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.
-
“Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.”
-- Joe EszterhasSource : "'I felt I had befouled myself'". Interview with Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.
-
“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 EszterhasSource : "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.
-
“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 EszterhasSource : "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.
-
-
“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 EszterhasSource : "Vera Farmiga and Paranormal Investigator Lorraine Warren Talk THE CONJURING, the Nature of Evil, Their Relationship, and More". Interview with Steve 'Frosty' Weintarub, collider.com. July 17, 2013.
-
“I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.”
-- Joe Eszterhas -
“I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime.”
-- Joe Eszterhas -
“I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.”
-- Joe Eszterhas -
-
“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 EszterhasSource : "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.
-
“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 -
“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 -
“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.”
-- Joe Eszterhas -
-
“Politics has become entertainment.”
-- Joe EszterhasSource : "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.
-
“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 EszterhasSource : "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.
-
“There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.”
-- Joe EszterhasSource : "Joe Eszterhas talks Hollywood smoke screen". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2002.
-
“Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.”
-- Joe EszterhasSource : "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.
-
-
“The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.”
-- Joe EszterhasSource : "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.
-
“Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.”
-- Joe Eszterhas -
“A cigarette in the hands of a Hollywood star onscreen is a gun aimed at a 12- or 14-year-old.”
-- Joe EszterhasSource : "Hollywood's Responsibility for Smoking Deaths" by Joe Eszterhas, www.nytimes.com. August 9, 2002.
-
“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 EszterhasSource : "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.
-
-
“I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.”
-- Joe EszterhasSource : "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.
#Worry Quotes #Political Quotes #Political Correctness Quotes
-
“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 EszterhasSource : "Joe Eszterhas talks Hollywood smoke screen". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2002.
-
“That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.”
-- Joe EszterhasSource : "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.
-
“I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.”
-- Joe EszterhasSource : "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.
-
-
“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.”
-- Joe EszterhasSource : "Eszterhas Takes on Democrats" by Steve Gorman, abcnews.go.com.
You may also like:
-
Adrian Lyne
Film director -
Arthur Hiller
Television Director -
Costa-Gavras
Film director -
Elizabeth Berkley
Film actress -
George Dzundza
Television actor -
Gina Gershon
Film actress -
Jeanne Tripplehorn
Film actress -
Jennifer Beals
Film actress -
Kyle MacLachlan
Actor -
Mel Gibson
Actor -
Michael Ovitz
Talent agent -
Phillip Noyce
Film director -
Robert Evans
Film Producer -
Sharon Stone
Actress -
Stephen Tobolowsky
Actor -
Tiffani Thiessen
Actress -
Tom Berenger
Television actor -
William Baldwin
Actor -
Michael Caton-Jones
Film director