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
Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
- 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
Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like
rock'n'roll stars.
- Joe Eszterhas
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
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
I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.
- 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 have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
- Joe Eszterhas
I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.
- Joe Eszterhas
I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a
producer.
- Joe Eszterhas
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 Eszterhas
I think that, unfortunately, violence is part of human behaviour, whether you're
reading Shakespeare or Faulkner.
- Joe Eszterhas
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
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
I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out
by the Stalinism of political correctness.
- Joe Eszterhas
I've studied the Holocaust extensively.
- Joe Eszterhas
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
- 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
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
Politics has become entertainment.
- Joe Eszterhas
That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
- Joe Eszterhas
The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.
- Joe Eszterhas
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
There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.
- Joe Eszterhas
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
Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
- 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
Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like
rock'n'roll stars.
- Joe Eszterhas
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
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
I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.
- 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 have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
- Joe Eszterhas
I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.
- Joe Eszterhas
I have only one loyalty - to my writing. I never wanted to be the head of a studio or a
producer.
- Joe Eszterhas
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 Eszterhas
I think that, unfortunately, violence is part of human behaviour, whether you're
reading Shakespeare or Faulkner.
- Joe Eszterhas
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
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
I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out
by the Stalinism of political correctness.
- Joe Eszterhas
I've studied the Holocaust extensively.
- Joe Eszterhas
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
- 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
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
Politics has become entertainment.
- Joe Eszterhas
That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.
- Joe Eszterhas
The studios have been taken over by marketing people and accountants.
- Joe Eszterhas
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
There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.
- Joe Eszterhas
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