Richard Preston Quotes
Fox bought the rights to the book way back when, and there was this attempt by Fox to make a movie out of 'The Hot Zone,' and it tended tragically in a Hollywood disaster involving Robert Redford and Jodie Foster and Ridley Scott. But the rights have been sitting at Fox ever since.
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I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.
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That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood.
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The ocean-bordered southern part of California has always been a place of Hollywood make-believe, casual opulence, suntans and jewelry.
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I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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I will only do a Hollywood film when there is something special offered to me.
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In 2011, I was in Hollywood peddling 'Sicario' to constant and resounding 'no's. Texas was suffering the worst drought on record. Wildfires spread across West Texas, burning some 4 million acres and 3,000 homes. While the urban centers in Texas were experiencing an economic boom, West Texas was collapsing under the weight of drought and fires.
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You know why they think I'm reclusive? I don't do the Hollywood stuff. I've never been on the circuit.
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Never, ever, have I felt really accepted in Hollywood.
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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
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I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.
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I was invited to photograph Hollywood. They asked me what I would like to photograph. I said, Ugly men.
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In Hollywood, there is no bigger commitment you can make than to a TV series. Even marriages pale in comparison. Marriages don't require signing iron-clad multiyear contracts. At least, most first marriages don't.
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It's difficult to find a movie that feels true to itself. You feel the hand of Hollywood, the moviemaking by committee, on everything.
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I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
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Hollywood is geared toward teenage idiocy.
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When I moved to Los Angeles, I was cooking with two guys who became celebrity chefs, if you will. I became their sous chef for awhile. We'd go to all the big names in Hollywood.
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In Hollywood I thought I was large and klutzy, like the characters I played.
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Everyone has a warped vision of Hollywood and what success in Hollywood is like.
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Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find.
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Underground people pay a desperate toll finding out things nobody else has discovered yet. We run around like headless chickens looking for the next cultural fix to spiral around in before it gets appropriated somewhere else and becomes something it never was. There's this sort of one-upmanship in the underground.
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Looks didn’t last forever and she wasn’t ready for religion yet. Money was kind of a good compromise, staked up somewhere between cosmetics and eternity.
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To desire immortality is to desire the eternal perpetuation of a great mistake.
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The resistance of a woman is not always a proof of her virtue, but more frequently of her experience.
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Fox bought the rights to the book way back when, and there was this attempt by Fox to make a movie out of 'The Hot Zone,' and it tended tragically in a Hollywood disaster involving Robert Redford and Jodie Foster and Ridley Scott. But the rights have been sitting at Fox ever since.
