I had known Cole Porter in Hollywood and New York, spent many a warm hour at his home, and met the talented and original people who were drawn to him.
If you're a young woman in Hollywood, then they want you to look a certain way and paint you in this and that.
Cougars are all the rage! I'm so glad that Hollywood and America are embracing women when they get in their 40s instead of putting us out to pasture.
As an Asian actor, I would like once in my life to do just one Hollywood movie. It would be a memorable experience.
I love watching Hollywood movies - I just don't know if I'd be happy doing a 'Jurassic Park.'
Hollywood could use less instead of more of everything.
I'm a big fan of glamour. It's something I don't think there's enough of in Hollywood anymore. I enjoy putting on a sexy dress and heels. I want to work it.
I mean, I love L.A. - I love living here. But I wish that we could make things without the need to hit a home run every single time. It's a unique thing to Hollywood that if you don't do that every time, then you're considered a failure. But it's like, 'Well, are you making movies to be successful? Or are you making movies to learn something?'
Hollywood is a place that attracts people with massive holes in their souls.
I had moved across the country, taken internships, networked, worked long hours, and called in favors to get there. And I had done it. I was working in Hollywood. So imagine the melancholy I found myself in when I realized that I didn't love casting the way that I always thought I would.
Every person wants to stretch himself and widen his audience. Since Hollywood has got more exposure and is shown all over the world, it's obvious that every actor would want to do an English film and explore himself.
I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?
No one has a closest friend in Hollywood.
Hollywood loves to typecast, and I guess they saw me as a violent guy.
You can have ambiguity in television that you are not allowed in film... at least in Hollywood studio films.
If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.
I had some connections from the newspapers that I did work with up there, so there was a newspaper publisher in Hollywood, and they promised me work and so on.
I started in the era when Hollywood reveled in being the most cost-inefficient industry on the planet. They used to commission a hundred scripts for every one they made.
I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.
There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does.
You know, when you're an actor, you want to go to Hollywood. When you're a musician, you want to go to Nashville.
I learned a long time ago in Hollywood that the only person I should vote for is myself.
Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him.
But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it.
In Hollywood, moviemaking used to be about escaping reality to go to the movies.
The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything.
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film.
The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.
Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.
Hollywood movies are seen throughout the world.
I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.
I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways.
Mickey Mouse popped out of my mind onto a drawing pad 20 years ago on a train ride from Manhattan to Hollywood at a time when business fortunes of my brother Roy and myself were at lowest ebb and disaster seemed right around the corner.
When I stepped into the Lifetime role in 2010, I did a listening tour of what was going on for women in this country. There was such a parallel in Hollywood with women talking about how there are stories that are not getting made and that talented young women are not getting the opportunity to direct and write.
I think Hollywood wants to be safe. The things you do first become your calling card, and I think people just sort of go, 'Well, we know he can do that.' They kind of put you in that hole.
