Joe Eszterhas
Joe Eszterhas
József A. "Joe" Eszterhasis a Hungarian-American writer. He has worked on 16 films that have grossed over two billion dollars. He has also written several non-fiction books, including an autobiography entitled Hollywood Animal, American Rhapsody and Crossbearer: A Memoir of Faith...
NationalityHungarian
ProfessionWriter
Date of Birth23 November 1944
stars thinking rocks
Bill Klinton was the ultimate rock star as president. I don't think as a result of his presidency we will ever have a rock star as president again. In the same way that we will never get involved in another Vietnam.
numbers trying admitting
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.
writing cutting thinking
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.
prayer exercise thinking
I was very skeptical when he began, and there have been moments where I think he's shown absolute leadership, and I think the jury is out, still out. I haven't made any final decisions on him, but I've been surprised at times. I agree with him about one thing absolutely-George W. Bush said recently that he believed in prayer and exercise. So do I.
stars thinking want
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.
stars rocks rock-n-roll
I always wanted to be a rock'n'roll star.
please smoke
Don't smoke. Don't kill yourselves. Don't maim yourselves. Tell your friends. Please don't smoke.
corruption power-corruption power-and-corruption
I have always been fascinated by the corruption of power.
writing way idiot
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.
father writing want
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.
smoking crowds scene
There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies.
team writing heart
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.
stars congratulations rocks
Fact is we went on to do other things. But we still wanted to do our success like rock'n'roll stars.
stars want movie-star
No one is going to tell a movie star to smoke or not smoke because they can do whatever they want .