Joe Eszterhas Quotes

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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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Loyalty, Writing, Producers

  "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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• I think that Hollywood is sort of guilty of having a moral blind eye on this subject. While at the same time, you know, being involved in a lot of liberal causes and being involved very militantly, Hollywood is, in fact, guilty of helping to addict people to smoke.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Eye, Thinking, People

  "Hardball" with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Worry, Political, Correctness

  "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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• Now the cigarette companies claim that they don't do that [ pay to have their product advertised in movies ] anymore, although it certainly makes you wonder a bit when an independent production like "In The Bedroom", you know, seems to focus constantly on Marlboros and almost it turns into a Marlboro ad, whether there was any money exchanged.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Independent, Focus, Pay

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Team, Writing, Heart

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Behaviour, Habit, Cigarette

  "'I felt I had befouled myself'". Interview with Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Writing, Way, Idiot

  "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 20, 2000.

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• I think one of the things that I was struck by was that Joe has the financial wherewithal to go check into some expensive clinic, go into rehab and beat these addictions but he didn't. He sort of designed his own, you know, sort of rehabilitation at home. And anybody could do what he did. When he felt like having a cigarette after he ate, he would get up and walk. At cocktail hour when he used to have a drink and watch the news, he stopped watching the news. He couldn't. He couldn't watch the news and not have a drink and a cigarette. He would walk.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Home, Thinking, Addiction

  Transcript to Oct. 9 at Cleveland State University, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Thinking, Want

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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

  Joe Eszterhas

  Taken, People, Marketing

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• Cigarettes, cigarettes were much tougher. Booze was tough And I had a real drinking problem before as we discovered in the hospital really, but the cigarettes are much tougher and to tell you the truth.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Real, Drinking, Tough

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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• 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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Creative, Satisfaction, Pennies

  "Eszterhas Takes on Democrats" by Steve Gorman, abcnews.go.com.

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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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Voice, Giving, Waiting

  "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Numbers, Trying, Admitting

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• They do the same thing [with cigarette] that they do in the kind of action picture where you know 200 people are killed and then there's no pain.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Pain, People, Action

  Interview with Dominic Bellone, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2002.

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• I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Rocks, Rock N Roll

  "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2010.

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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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Past, Directors, Prime

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Writing, Cutting, Thinking

  "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com.

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• Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Please, Smoke

  Interview with Chris Matthews, www.nbcnews.com. October 9, 2013.

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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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Country, Six, Trouble

  "The Hollywood hitman". Interview with Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Father, Writing, Immigration

  "I felt I had befouled myself" by Duncan Campbell, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2004.

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• There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Marijuana, Smoking, Crowds

  "Joe Eszterhas talks Hollywood smoke screen". Interview with Paula Zahn, www.cnn.com. August 12, 2002.

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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.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Stars, Congratulations, Rocks

  "The Hollywood hitman" by Ed Vulliamy, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2000.

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• Sirens wailed; the revolution had come to Harrisonville. Blood was flowing on Pearl Street.

  Joe Eszterhas

  Blood, Sirens, Pearls

  Joe Eszterhas (1974). “Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse”

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