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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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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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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I remember doing stand-up at an open mic a long time ago, and the MC was like, 'Who's next?' I said, 'Marietta Sirleaf,' and he was like, 'What?' And I was like, 'Ugh, okay, just Retta.' It stuck with me ever since.
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Truly, love is delightful and pleasant food, supplying, as it does, rest to the weary, strength to the weak, and joy to the sorrowful. It in fact renders the yoke of truth easy and its burden light.
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We need god to prosper those without him will not.
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Hollwood creates useful entertainment. There are millions of people on earth who need distraction and American cinema fulfills that function.
