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Joe Eszterhas

"I worry that we are approaching a time when that which is shocking is squeezed out by the Stalinism of political correctness."

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Akshay Vasu

"Time is always standing still, we are only changing."

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Akshay Vasu

"But I suppose film is distinctive because of its nature, of its being able to cut through time with editing."

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Akshay Vasu

"The time is always right, just act."

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Akshay Vasu

"Each time I told them I didn't kill my wife."

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Akshay Vasu

"We recorded that trio and it's out on the Knitting Factory label. I've got another record in the can with that group and Marc, which I'll hopefully finish some time before next summer."

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Akshay Vasu

"I call it like the domino theory of reality. If you can go one step at a time and it seems to make sense, you can then take your audience into an area that is relatively outlandish."

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Akshay Vasu

"All times are treasureable; the times of prosperity, and times of adversity."

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Akshay Vasu

"Time is the most valuable currency so spend it wisely"

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Akshay Vasu

"In the beauty of the mornings we forget about the night; in the beauty of the night we forget about the mornings! When you meet the beauty, you drop anchor in the present time and all other times disappear from your mind!"

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Akshay Vasu

"I think in this movie, every time I see his work, I'm blown away by it because he, to me, he really embodied the character so powerfully and so real, so truthfully to me."

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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."

Change

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Joe Eszterhas
"There are no crowds out there demanding to see smoking scenes in movies."

Movies

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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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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."

People

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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."

Power

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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."

Family

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Joe Eszterhas
"I had read too many memoirs that were written after the writer or the director was past his or her prime."

Past

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Joe Eszterhas
"That's sort of what I felt... I miss drinking, I thought bars were truly holy places."

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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."

Movies

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Joe Eszterhas
"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."

Politics

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