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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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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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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Cinema is about people, and we are a very emotional people. That is why you see those ups and those downs and those colours. That is what Indian cinema is about.
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My mom's a translator, my dad's a woodworker; that's the world I grew up in, that's the world I'm most comfortable in. The whole idea of Hollywood or any of that other stuff that unfortunately goes along with film, that wasn't part of my upbringing, thankfully.
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Plastic surgery is like a big elephant sitting in the Hollywood living room.
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Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.
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Take it from your own life, write what you believe in.
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Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.
