I was a young film student around the time of the new wave in film in the 1970s; old Hollywood was naff and over. For me, as a film student, I was going to see French and Italian cinema; American cinema was 'Easy Rider' and 'Taxi Driver.' Everything was gritty.
I find Hollywood really toxic.
There are a lot of things I never did, because I believe in watching those true Hollywood stories and I see how easy it is to lose track of your life.
It could be my downfall, but I don't think it is - Hollywood is run on perception, and if you stray off the path of what you want to do with your career, it's suicide.
Entertainment, Hollywood, award shows - these are the things that really captivated me.
There's a real separation between actors and all the other functions of Hollywood. If you're an actor you're somehow not a member of the crew. You're somehow more special. I hate that.
We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.
Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting.
My professional life in Hollywood has been filled with joy and laughter.
Everyone should see Hollywood once, I think, through the eyes of a teenage girl who has just passed a screen test.
Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946.
I'll probably never be the best actor in Hollywood, but I hope to be the hardest working.
This same habitual blindness to spiritual, substantive dimensions of every significant challenge continues to handicap Hollywood.
Hollywood large is so different than real-life large.
As for Hollywood children, their social life can get a little overboard, just like their parents can. Living in town, you attend so many functions.
I know what it means to do a job... I worked in a factory. I respect people in the service industry. What irritates me more is when people aren't respectful. There's a lot of nonsense behavior, especially in a place like Hollywood. The money, the power, they create little monsters.
Bloated budgets are ruining Hollywood - these pictures are squeezing all the other types of movies out of Hollywood. It's disastrous.
That's one thing about Hollywood. People don't always want what's real. People always want a little more. So for me, it's a compromise. Here you go, that hyper-reality.
Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.
There's this thing in Hollywood about the sympathetic character and likability. I've never understood that because the people I love most in my life are not likable all the time. My wife is not always likable. I'm certainly not always likable. My dad is not always likable. We're human beings.
Tatiana Alvarez, who also became a queen of the wheels of steel in L.A., has now sold her incredible cross-dressing, reverse 'Tootsie' story to Warner Bros. in Hollywood, and hotshot producers Mike Medavoy, Brian Medavoy and Erwin More have reunited to turn it into a movie.
Our ethos for 'Now You See Me 2' was that everything in the movie at least had the potential to be done in real life, and I'd say over 90% of it was actually done in-camera with no CGI. Of course, movies like this are always going to be bound by the rules of Hollywood, being there's going to be enhancements of CGI.
All the sharky elements of Hollywood are similar to sharky elements in Silicon Valley. It's obviously different, but the deals are the same. And you get hot, then you're not.
I'm kind of irritated by the Hollywood scene.
Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.
Anyone who has any kind of success in Hollywood wants to make more expensive movies and spend more money, be bigger. I think it's unusual to have success and want to stay small.
I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.
Prior to 'Pirates of the Caribbean' - the first one in 2003 - I had been essentially known within the confines of Hollywood as box office poison, you know what I'm saying? You know, I basically had built a career on 20 years of failures.
I don't know the figures, but Hollywood must buy 100 rights for every movie that actually gets made.
I don't love the whole Hollywood mentality, but I do love the weather and how motivated everyone is around here. It motivates me to make fun music.
The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.
There are conservatives in Hollywood who make good movies. They just don't make conservative movies because that's not what gets funded.
I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.
Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore.
At Pixar, we believe strongly that filmmakers should develop ideas they are passionate about. This may sound like a no-brainer, but in fact in Hollywood, the big movie studios have whole departments devoted to acquiring and developing projects that will only later be paired with a director-for-hire.
