Claude Lelouch Quotes
Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.
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Wes Craven's 'Shocker' is one of my favorite soundtracks. I don't know where that movie stands in the critical eye of cinema, but it was a really fun movie because of all the bands that were part of it.
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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 got completely fed up with that Hollywood blockbuster mentality. I couldn't take it seriously any longer.
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I'm trying to strike a balance between Bollywood and Hollywood.
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Hollywood cools, and when it cools you have to go to where the work is. I ran off to Italy to do spaghetti westerns.
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Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.
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In case you don't know this, we're not in the '90s anymore. Indie cinema does not reign.
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KISS is Las Vegas entertainment. A musician doesn't need the mask.
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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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I'm not a party guy, and I'm not a Hollywood guy, either.
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I have always been clear that cinema is not my priority and that my family is.
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I'd like to be for cinema what Shakespeare was for theatre, Marx for politics and Freud for psychology: someone after whom nothing is as it used to be.
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First of all, I'm Middle Eastern; I'm Iranian, so to be playing a leading role in a big Hollywood movie, I think, is possibly one of the first times.
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I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.
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I prefer working in good cinema, wherever it is. I like subjects that have a universal appeal.
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Entertainment has this way of resetting itself.
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Everything encourages you not to tell stories of gay lives. There is no economy yet for that kind of cinema.
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I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.
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I am a child of Hollywood and dreams. To me, to be on the red carpet is the best place in the world.
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When you hold resentment toward another, you are bound to that person or condition by an emotional link that is stronger than steel. Forgiveness is the only way to dissolve that link and get free.
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The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.
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A woman without a degree of decency and delicacy is unsexed.
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The United States is using its war on drugs as an excuse to expand its control over Latin America.
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Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.
