Joe Eszterhas Quotes

If DreamWorks and Disney need that name to sell the cartoon and get people in the seats, that's what they need. It's not fair, but there's plenty of other work for us to do.

I think it is really important to have a sense of business. As a designer you can get so wrapped up in the design and fashion side that you forget the business side.

Maybe there are too many restaurants. Maybe some of mine need to close. So be it. I'll live with the market place.

You've got to know business before you go to show business.

I don't really count myself as a very sophisticated businessperson. I'm a creative artist. All I know from business I've picked up along the way.

And it's one reason why I don't go to a lot of movies - they're more and more dominated by corporate values and fiscal concerns as opposed to cinematic concerns.

If you are handed something, it's a blessing and a curse. Look at hip hop artists, they produced everything themselves. Even people like Robert De Niro are getting into production. Again, it's art vs. marketing. Not everyone can take the risk. You have to break a few eggs to make a good omelet.

I decided to do whatever I could to make sure the business side of music didn't intrude on the creative part.

One of my main agenda right from the beginning has been cost rationalization, and we have done a lot of cost rationalization.

I have never had a business mind.

So, as I step out and take these first steps on this journey to do my own thing, I didn't want to have to get anybody's approval on anything. I didn't want to have to ask a record label 'Is this okay for the album cover? What time do you think I should go on tour this year?'

I'm 100 percent in control of my artistry, music, and finances.

'Sweetback' represented an economic tour de force because I had no partners; I own it.

Creative freedom on television is very limited and I get bored very easily.

There's only so much stuff you can buy. I have to retail the stuff. Stuff that's really really weird - it's cool, but who are you going to sell it to? I do collect some stuff. In the end, I have to run a business.

I've had 20 years, 25 years of running business. I've been well trained by a number of amazing organizations and I've got a lot of implicit, subconscious pattern recognition on how to make business decisions.

I'm not going to run my business on the basis of quarterly numbers.

Whether you stay private or go public, after all is said and done, a CEO's job is to create lasting shareholder value.

If I ran the Grammys, it would probably go bankrupt.

I would never tie in creative with a talent's contract. To me, that is insanity. Creative needs change, talents evolve or not, and to be locked in to a talent having the ability to not run the plays that the team dictates is not smart business.

I love to think about business. It's what makes me happy.

I believe that if you want to exist on TV, you should be open to doing anything and everything.

As a writer for six years, I wrote my own TV, which, I was the only person in the WWE that could probably honestly say, since day one in NXT, they wrote their own material.

When we look at our business, we are not that concerned about short term valuations.

I would love to turn producer someday but the time has to be right.