Joe Eszterhas - On Screenwriting

Complete program at: http://fora.tv/fora/showthread.php?t=368

Screenwriter and author Joe Eszterhas discusses the writing process, and offers some advice for aspiring screenwriters.

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Joe Eszterhas, best-selling author and legendary bad-boy screenwriter discusses his new book "The Devil's Guide to Hollywood: the Screenwriter as God!."

Mike Ovitz told him his Wilshire Blvd. "foot soldiers" would hunt him down. He's antagonized almost everyone at the top in Tinseltown. And now, Joe Eszterhas tells everything he knows - in brief, quotable bursts - about the business, the history of Hollywood, and how to write screenplays that make millions. Idiosyncratic, gruff and as shaggy as Eszterhas himself, "The Devil's Guide to Hollywood" makes a character/leitmotif of Eszterhas' fellow Hungarian Zsa Zsa Gabor ("Money is like a sixth sense that makes it possible for you to fully enjoy the other five."), and makes the case that Marilyn Monroe was the sharpest tack in Hollywood ("Hollywood is a place where they'll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul. I know, because I turned down the first offer often enough and held out for the fifty cents."). Refreshing, dirty, tough, there's no book like it. - Books Inc.

Joe Eszterhas has written fifteen films which have made more than a billion dollars at the box office. Among them are Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge, Flashdance, Showgirls, Betrayed, Music Box and F.I.S.T. He is the author of the recent New York Times bestsellers American Rhapsody and Hollywood Animal. In 1975, his second book, Charlie Simpson's Apocalypse, was nominated for the National Book Award. He was a senior editor at Rolling Stone from 1971 to 1975.

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[comicfl]

I am glad to hear someone talking about screenwriting who is actually a screenwriter with credits. There are so many books out there by screenwriters without credits. Not to say those books are bad, but I wish more screenwriters renowned were writing them.

[Tarbra]

Interesting, I have not only the ability to sit on my butt and write, but also an overwhelming compulsion to do so. I just write what I feel, and what I know about.

I completely agree with what Joe Eszterhas has said here. You have to believe in what you write about or you may as well not write at all.

Thanks Joe for confirming what I believe in to be right.

[goaxfles]

Remélem téged is pofán vágnak , mert TE is MAGYAR vagy

[BUDDY6414724297]

It is unfortunate that the studios don't pay writers more.

And I agree, if you believe in it, then writer it.

[TOLFINTRY]

i can only like this video once, shame.

[normalguyable]

im a vegan screenwriter, it gives me so much energy and i feel so healthy, i recommend it to any screenwriter.

[DoubleTalkingJive]

@THEZOOLOGIST123 Good for you! Your pops is still a shitty writer...

[MKukula]

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[THEZOOLOGIST123]

@JuanMacready

yah I know, I am his son, I saw the used cigarettes in the ashtray at the end of the day and breathed in all the second hand smoke.

[THEZOOLOGIST123]

@VideosfromIAM

I know I am man, I thank God every day for the blessing he has given me. Also, I was smoking with my dad starting at thirteen, if he wouldn't have quit neither would I. His voice is much better now by the way, much stronger than in this video. Thanks for the comment and i'm sorry for your misfortune. I looked at your channel and it is very professional, I like your videos and you seem like a promising screenwriter.

[VideosfromIAM]

@THEZOOLOGIST123 Your dad is very luck, mine lost his whole throat to cancer but at least he is still alive. I remember the stage when my dad sounded like that too but he didn't act quick enough to retain his natural voice.

[THEZOOLOGIST123]

@DoubleTalkingJive Hey buddy, have you made billions writing? No, thats why you criticize on YouTube. I'm his son and I'm currently living in a big ass house in Florida. Looks like you failed and my dad won in the movie business.