Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions Quotes

“that throughout the history of the continent, whenever anything of value is found, the locals die in misery, their sons become child soldiers, and their daughters are made into sex slaves.”
― Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

“One of Patsy Broderick's choicer comments was to describe my writing as 'limp as a penis.”
― Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

“From the moment we met Patsy Broderick was contemptuous, demeaning, and volatile. As Matthew sat in opaque silence, I was forced to defend, in excruciating detail, my rationale for every line in every scene.”
― Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

“I called Matthew Broderick. The radiophone was working again.
'Hi, Matthew, I hear you want to talk about the script. Over.'
'Yeah, well, I have a lot of notes…'
He neglected to say “over.” In fact, in all our conversations on the radiophone, he petulantly refused to say it, so I never quite knew when he was done talking and it was time for me to PTT (push to talk).”
― Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

“Then again, the best definition of success I ever heard was going from failure to failure without loss of enthusiasm.”
― Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

“it’s the hangman saying you have a pretty neck.”
― Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

“detritus”
― Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

“the happiness of children is concerned with the miracle of the moment.”
― Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood

“When asked what it was like to direct Barbra Streisand in the 1976 version of A Star is Born, Frank Pierson replied, “I wouldn’t know.”
― Ed Zwick, Hits, Flops, and Other Illusions: My Fortysomething Years in Hollywood