I respect the system out there in Hollywood, I really do, but I'm very intent on art versus commerce. I want to do it all - film, TV and theatre - if it's the right job.
Much of what happens in Love Always is really from overheard conversations in the Russian Tea Room. It's an improvisation of the way certain Hollywood agents think and talk to each other.
My nucleus of friends or something protects me from the machinery that is Hollywood. I don't think I'm on the same quest that a lot of people are. I guess that could be a limitation.
While Hollywood has had a huge influence on the Indian industry, Bollywood and its actors, too, are garnering a lot of attention in the western film world.
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.
In Hollywood, you play a mom and instantly, you've got osteoporosis.
Hollywood wants its heroes to be virtuous, but it defines virtue in a way that excludes any action that is self-interested. If virtue means putting others ahead of self, then it's clear that most people, let alone most capitalists, aren't very virtuous.
I like the slow Scandinavian pace. I don't need cliffhangers in every chapter because I don't want to make a Hollywood movie out of it.
Hollywood is a dirty temptress that has stolen my wallet way too many times. It's a great town, but at the same time, it's a hustle.
I think the reason you use an actor is if they are right for the role. Most of the high-profile stars tend to be good actors. That's probably what led to their fame. So if they are right for the movie, you can certainly use them. But I don't want to, not at all. Stardom and Hollywood overpower the ideas and the film.
The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do.
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully.
I have friends who have a CD mastering plant in Hollywood and they are very sceptical about European record labels' understanding of digital technology.
People are intrigued by fame, power and wealth and I think Hollywood is the only place where you get all three together.
I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.
I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.
God bless Hollywood and all that it stands for, but, you know, people tend to peak in their 40s, and then it's all downhill from there.
Hollywood's all about, 'Let's make this easy: This is what you do, so you go over here in this group, and we're not gonna call you.'
I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.
Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch.
I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.
Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.
Hollywood has treated me well.
In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.
I saw a very good Hollywood film the other day. It was about Cole Porter.
Some Mexicans go to Hollywood and lose career in Mexico because they play imitation. I don't want this to happen to me.
I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.
Cheerleading was my way in. It was one of the most rigorous audition processes ever. It definitely groomed me for Hollywood.
Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.
Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
West Hollywood blew my mind: gay men walking down the street, kissing and holding hands. I'd never imagined there was a place like that.
If you have a career like mine, which is so identified with Hollywood, with big studios and stars, you wonder if maybe you shouldn't go off and do what the world thinks of as more personal films with lesser-known people. But I think I've fooled everybody. I've made personal films all along. I just made them in another form.
I never really worked in Hollywood. Some American producers came to Europe to shoot films with me, so it's a different situation... It was not my aim.
So, is Hollywood anti-religion? Not in my opinion. But unlike, say, politicians and preachers who talk faith before going off to speak in tongues to their mistresses, Hollywood just doesn't wear its faith on its sleeve.
And I think I have a perspective about Hollywood that you don't see very often in the press.