Your characters get angry at you if you speak about them and stop you from giving birth to them on the page in revenge. Real writers sit down and write. Wannabe writers sit around and talk.
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 … - 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 …
- Joe Eszterhas
Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit. - Joe Eszterhas
Cigarettes are not a part of human behaviour, they are a habit.
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
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.
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 c… - Joe Eszterhas
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 c…
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 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.
Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars. - Joe Eszterhas
Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.
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 worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness.
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,… - 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,…
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
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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