Emilio Estevez Biography

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Emilio Estevez Quotes

 

• The hotel and the characters under its roof serve as a microcosm for what was happening in the country during that time.

• In 2000, I found myself at the Ambassador Hotel for a photo shoot with my brother ( Charlie Sheen ), and I remember calling Roger going, 'I think I found it. I'm not sure what the story is, but I think it's going to be about the day Bobby Kennedy was shot. I started to do the research and started writing. I finished it about a week before 9/11.

• My intention with 'Bobby' is not to make a political picture, although the 1968 California primary figures prominently in the story. The film is about being at critical mass -- critical mass in relationships or between race, and the hotel and the characters under its roof serve as a microcosm for what was happening in the country during that time. The entire country was experiencing critical mass. Culturally, we all unraveled after that tragic night on June 5. And now, 37 years later, our country has reached critical mass once again.

• I think I've matured to a great extent. I think that I want different things now. That it's not about the celebrity status that you receive because you're doing the next hot movie. It's about doing good work.

• The hotel itself was something of a microcosm of the country at the time, reflecting the racial divisions in the U.S. at the time and how divided people were about Vietnam, ... It was important if you were a 19-year-old man at the time that Bobby Kennedy was elected president because his promise was to get us out of the war rather than escalate it.

• It was important if you were a 19-year-old man at the time that Bobby Kennedy was (running for) president, because his promise was to get us out of the war, rather than escalate it.

• Writing is a lonely job unless you're a drinker, in which case you always have a friend within reach.

Emilio Estevez Filmography

2006 Arthur And The Minimoys
2006 Bobby
2005 The L.A. Riot Spectacular
2000 Sand
2000 Rated X
1999 Late Last Stand
1998 Dollar For The Dead
1996 The War At Home
1996 Mission : Impossible
1996 D3: The Mighty Ducks
1994 D2: The Mighty Ducks
1993 Judgement Night
1993 Another Stakeout
1993 Loaded Weapon I
1992 The Mighty Ducks
1992 Freejack
1990 Men At Work
1990 Young Guns II
1989 Nightbreaker
1988 Young Guns
1987 Stakeout
1986 Wisdom
1986 Maximum Overdrive
1985 That Was Then... This Is Now
1985 St. Elmo's Fire
1985 The Breakfast Club
1984 Repo Man
1983 Nightmares
1983 The Outsiders
1982 Tex


 

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