Hollywood Quotes
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It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.
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I majored in theater at San Diego State. My one eye was on football, and my other eye was on Hollywood.
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Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
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You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.
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I studied really hard. But Hollywood never appreciated my talent.
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I don't crave Hollywood.
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I am not going to do a film based on a bad scenario just to make a big Hollywood film or work with Hollywood stars.
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Hollywood's not knocking on our door. They're banging down the door with a sledgehammer.
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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I have friends who are Caucasian who have pitched ideas for a Chinese-American show, and there is great resistance in Hollywood and the networks to support that.
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When people think about this religion, they'll say "voodoo" this and "voodoo" that in the way the Hollywood movies show it: the sticking of pins in dolls. It's very different than Vodou - which is a religion that comes to Haiti from our ancestors in Africa. I want to differentiate it from the stereotypical, sensationalized view that we see of the religion.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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Three years is a lifetime in Hollywood. If your career starts slipping in L.A., you can really feel it. All of a sudden, the people that you were beating for a part start beating you.
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It's a true testament to say that there are no small roles in Hollywood. People say, "Oh, I just said one line." or "I was walking in the background." Don't deny humble beginnings.
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Making a movie is still very difficult in Hollywood, regardless of what you have and what level you're at. It is a house of cards, and things have to perfectly align.
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People love things about Hollywood. People love to see the inside of what's going on.
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You graduate from film school and move to Hollywood. Hollywood tells you, 'We're not the place for you to make films,' so you decide you have to make a film yourself.
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Any of these Vietnam vets that have been there and know the deal, they don't feel that any Hollywood endeavor about the Vietnam era has ever gotten it right yet.
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I always think it's really hard if you are Asian or Chinese to be really in Hollywood. There are not so many really great characters for you.
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It felt amazing to be one of a handful working female directors in Hollywood.
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When I was making my first films, I was very interested in Hollywood B movies.
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I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.
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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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Every time a Hollywood director shoots a film about Africa that features a Western protagonist, I shake my head - because Africans, real people though we may be, are used as props in the West's fantasy of itself.
