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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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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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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I get to see the different sides of skating now which involves not only competing, but entertainment.
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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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Hollywood to me is a place to work. Home is Chester County.
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We only attain the true idea of marriage when we consider it as a spiritual union--a union of immortal affections, of undying faculties, of an imperishable destiny.
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Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.
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Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.
