Hollywood Quotes
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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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I know it's a film and all of that, and it's a Hollywood film, but it kind of feels like this sometimes, when you're in pain and it hurts, and you're desperate. Or you are about to cross some moral line and it's so seductive and you just do... and all that.
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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 has this incredible ability to make a lot of noise.
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I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.
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They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
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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 am not saying one is better than the other. I enjoy both. But Hollywood is far more organised than Bollywood.
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And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.
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There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.
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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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After 13 years of life on the half shell in Hollywood, I have made a trip where I wasn't a tourist.
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I was raised in Hollywood by my mother.
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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.
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...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.
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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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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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Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.
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Alan Ladd was a marvelous person in his simplicity. In so many ways we were kindred spirits. We both were professionally conceived through Hollywood's search for box office and the types to insure the box office. And we were both little people. Alan wasn't as short as most people believe. It was true that in certain films Alan would climb a small platform or the girl worked in a slit trench. We had no such problems together.
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As a theater actor I always wondered, 'Is there a place for me in Hollywood?'
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Hollywood is like Picasso's bathroom.
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I find Hollywood really toxic.
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I'm not a braggart, but when I was a little girl people used to come from all over Hollywood to hear me sing.
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It's strange to recall that America animated none of my youthful daydreams. I did not see a Hollywood film until my late teens.
