The one thing I try and do, when people say, 'What kind of movies do you guys look for,' the one thing I look for is 'different.' And I think that's very antithetical to Hollywood.
At early previews, the theater gossips are there, wishing you ill every night. They don't grant you any slack. Agents are in from Hollywood. Your friends are there. People who are going to spread the word-of-mouth. If something doesn't work, everyone will know.
When you're down and out, there's no meaner place to live than Hollywood. You can get away with your embezzlements and your lies and your murders, but you can never get away with failing.
I don't want to lie. I dislike dishonesty. And I work in Hollywood, a town and a business that relies on a lot of falsehoods with people hiding behind different facades. I don't want to be a part of that.
Most of your life as an actor in Hollywood, either an actress or an actor, you have to look - you have to work out, you have to look - you rarely get to play someone who's just human, who's real, who is overweight, even not grossly overweight, but who has aspects of just everyday life.
There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.
I don't find Hollywood interesting, so I'm thinking of studying architecture instead.
The world looks at China as a big place with a lot of people, a good place to make money. And because so many Chinese families send their kids abroad to study, they are familiar with foreign cultures, so Hollywood films are very successful in China.
I really want to do something in Europe. With a small movie, it can be an interesting challenge. But I have to get the right project. I don't think it's so important to go to Hollywood. All that trash that comes out of there! I don't want to do that.
In Hollywood, women hate each other.
I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.
I do like musical films more than big Hollywood films, especially those by Jacques Demi and Vincent Minelli.
Hollywood must have been terrific once.
I've worked with Hollywood stars, but the reason most of the Hollywood stars I've worked with are Hollywood stars is that they're excellent actors, so I've been very lucky.
Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.
Well, I wasn't just kind of standing in a queue at McDonald's and someone sat down and said, 'You're the director of a $100 million Hollywood movie.' I've been working in commercials for ten years.
So many people aren't ready for Hollywood - professionally or practically.
Washington is Hollywood for ugly people.
Age is just a number. Unless, that is, you live in Hollywood, where there's this notion that if you haven't hit it big by your 20s, you may as well hit the road.
It helps being from somewhere other than Hollywood, not having grown up with that sense of film-making. I really wasn't exposed to that as a young woman.
Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
The Indian film industry is very, very vibrant. It is a mix like it is in Hollywood - there is a lot of highly commercial cinema.
My desire for the part of Mammy was not dominated by selfishness for Hollywood has been good to me and I am grateful.
The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered.
In Hollywood people lie to each other and cheat each other and then go and play tennis. But I don't want to be a tennis player.
It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.
Harrison Ford is absolutely amazing. He is a Hollywood icon, and just to work with him was absolutely incredible.
Hollywood is always about Hollywood.
I don't think the spirit of Hollywood is such a spirit of generosity. I think people really begrudge giving. In New York, it's like that.
Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.
I can easily lose myself emotionally in absolute Hollywood garbage.
You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well.
By 1951, television had already made such inroads on the income garnered by motion picture companies that the Golden Era which had prevailed until then was beginning to disintegrate. And by 1953, it had come to an end. Hollywood was a dismal, tragic place.
Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.
So, no, I'm not trying to crack into Hollywood, although I'll make films there if they're good scripts.
We cheer everyone who goes off to Hollywood and tells American stories but telling Australian stories is the greatest thing you can do.
