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Quotes By 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.

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GodPoint Whether

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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Checking Father Obviously

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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MoviesReason Stars

I always wanted to be a rock’n’roll star.

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Star

Politics has become entertainment.

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Politics

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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SuccessFact Stars

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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PoliticsPublic Star

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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Came Six Trouble

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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Past Writer Written

I have my own religious bond with the God in my own head.

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GodHead Religious

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

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Marketing Studios Taken

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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PowerHeart Point

That’s sort of what I felt… I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places.

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Felt Places Sort

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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PoliticsSaying Waiting

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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