Quotes by Eric Goode - Page 1

I did a CNN pilot but they decided I wasn't Anthony Bourdain.
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Cnn
Pilot
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I was definitely an 80s fashion victim who drank the Kool-Aid.
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Drank
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I probably spent about 40 percent of 2019 on a plane and filming.
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Filming
Plane
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I can only imagine there still have to be nightclubs where 21-year-olds go.
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Nightclubs
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The reality of our world today is not every species can be left in the wild.
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Our World
Species
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I'm not one who thinks that people should be locked up and thrown away the key.
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Locked
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Thrown
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If hotels are replacing nightclubs, then they're replacing nightclubs for yuppies.
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Nightclubs
Hotels
Replacing
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I spent my summers in Sonoma at my grandfather's ranch, we called it Rancho Rodeo.
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Grandfather
Rodeo
Ranch
Summers
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Sometimes our criminal justice system is about punishing people and not reforming people.
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Criminal Justice
Criminal Justice System
Criminal
Punishing
Reforming
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I set out to expose the issue with big cat ownership in America and where that exploitation lies.
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Cat
Exploitation
Ownership
Expose
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Look, when we were building Area, we were so driven and focused, partly because none of us came from money.
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Driven
Partly
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The tiger people, the reptile people, they all have sort of unique subcultures. Kind of like 'Best in Show.'
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Tiger
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If you keep more 230 tigers, it's like having 230 children, you don't really love them, you're just collecting them.
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Collecting
Tigers
Love Children More
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But I was just really blown away that you could just buy a snow leopard. For me, it was like buying a panda bear or a Komodo dragon.
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Blown Away
Buying
Snow
Bear
Leopard
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When I was in nightclubs, I thought they were a really important way for young people who come to New York to meet people and connect.
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Nightclubs
People New Way
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I definitely have, on paper, an unorthodox career path. And from childhood onward, I was always fascinated by the outdoors and wildlife.
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Career Path
Unorthodox
Wildlife
Onward
Outdoors
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There is animal rights and animals rights organizations like PETA, then there's animal welfare, which is very different than animal rights.
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Animal Rights
Welfare
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I kept a few turtles and tortoises and maybe a snake in my apartment in New York City, off and on. Maybe sometimes against my better judgment.
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New York City
Snake
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The Standard in Hollywood, when you check in, they have that sort of Area-like vignette behind the front desk with someone sleeping behind glass. An actual person.
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Check
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Glass
Standard
Sleeping
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I spent countless hours hiking up and down Carriger Creek. That was a time of my life when I really connected with nature as a child, and my mom really promoted that.
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Hiking
Up And Down
Life Nature Time
Countless
Creek
Promoted
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I knew a notorious reptile dealer who would send me animals for Area. I regret that. I mean, the landlord had wolves and an arctic fox upstairs and quite possibly a tiger.
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Arctic
Dealer
Landlord
Mean
Notorious
Regret
Upstairs
Animals
Quite
Fox
Possibly
Send
Tiger
Wolves
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When something changes in Episode 7, you have to then begin moving things around, shuffling things backwards. Once you start moving material into it, that can derail your whole arc.
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Backwards
Shuffling
Arc
Derail
Episode
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I would say the big cat people see tigers as sort of a status symbol, as you would a Ferrari or fancy car collection. They have the animals to elevate their position. It makes them special.
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Fancy
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Tigers
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Later in life, I started an organization that works to save tortoises and turtles that are threatened, but in full disclosure, I still always had a fascination with people who kept animals.
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Disclosure
Fascination
Threatened
Life Always People
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Then I began filming a world that I knew quite a bit about. I was peripherally involved in that world much of my life - the exotic reptile world, the collectors, the dealers, the smugglers.
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Collectors
Exotic
Smugglers
Life World My Life
Filming
Dealers
Quite A Bit
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People fantasize about working with animals, and then they start doing it, and then they start to believe that they're indispensable and the animal loves them just as much they love the animal.
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Indispensable
Fantasize
Just As Much
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I guess you could say I'm a closeted animal person, because a lot of my life I did it in secrecy. I was always fascinated with exotic animals, particularly reptiles, from the age of 6 when I got a pet tortoise.
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Pet
Exotic
Reptiles
Secrecy
Life Age Always
Tortoise
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I was a kid that loved reptiles and eventually started an organization dedicated to saving turtles and tortoises, called the Turtle Conservancy, where we protect land and basically do species conservation around the world.
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Conservation
Dedicated
Reptiles
Saving
Species
Turtle
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So I'd say that the Doc Antles, the Jeff Lowes, these people were very guarded. Carole Baskin wasn't and Joe Exotic, wasn't, obviously, because he's such a narcissist and an egomaniac that he did so many things against his better judgment.
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Exotic
Guarded
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Joe
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But in this case people have hundreds and hundreds of animals, they have a menagerie. You can't possibly love that many animals. So, it's more about the ego and the pride of having all of these things sort of like a car collection or a gun collection.
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Gun
Pride
Collection
Animals
Case
Hundreds
Possibly
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At the end of the day, the best sanctuaries are places like the Performing Animal Welfare Society in Northern California, where he really provides his tigers large spaces. And there are people in the private sector that do a really good job with animals.
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Good Job
Northern California
Private Sector
Tigers
Welfare
Northern
Provides
Sector
Spaces
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What you do in Oklahoma with tigers in these roadside zoos would be frowned on if it opened in the L.A. basin or New York. I think it's a lack of education. And people believe we should be able to have a tiger, because this is America - who should stop us?
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Oklahoma
Roadside
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The real takeaway should be to give your money to conservation programs around the world that are really working hard to save tigers in their range countries and not give your money to sanctuaries, which are really, effectively just caging tigers and cats.
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Range
Tigers
Money World Your
Cats
Effectively
Programs
Working Hard
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There are times when you do have to bring animals into captivity to save a species like California Condors, or Arabian Aurochs. But they have something called species survival plans, and they do it in a very thoughtful way and are careful with the genetics.
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Arabian
Captivity
Genetics
Plans
Species
Survival
Thoughtful
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Animal rights can be as extreme as not riding a horse, or not wearing leather, not having a pet at all. Animal welfare advocates are preventing the suffering of animals. And then there's conservation and species conservation and what conservation biologists do.
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Pet
Animal
Animal Rights
Conservation
Horse
Leather
Preventing
Riding
Species
Suffering
Welfare
Extreme
Advocate
Biologists
Wearing
Having
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My focus personally has been to be a conservationist, which is to save species, protect wild lands, sometimes bring animals into assurance colonies in the wild - like California Condors for example - and put them back in the wild. It's very different from animal rights.
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Animal Rights
Assurance
Species
Colonies
For Example
Lands
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Unlike accredited zoos like the Bronx Zoo, San Diego Zoo, the Los Angeles Zoo, these are private menageries, and these people are frightened and there is an existential fear that they are going to be shut down by the government, by PETA, by HSUS, by animal rights groups. So they, generally, are very guarded.
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Animal Rights
Bronx
Existential
Frightened
Groups
Guarded
Los Angeles
Rights
San Diego
Fear Government People
Angeles
Diego
Generally
Unlike
Los
Private
San
Shut
Zoo
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