There's been Hollywood interest in a lot of the stuff that I've done, but Descender's felt different right from the start for whatever reason. I don't know if that's because a lot of my other stuff's a little more idiosyncratic, and 'Descender' has a bit more of a high concept to it.
I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer.
In Hollywood you just fail upwards.
I am no size zero or super-thin Hollywood actress. I am built for men who like women to look like women.
I think if I had come out of drama school and been an instant Hollywood superstar, I would be taking long, leisurely holidays.
Coming from New Zealand and Australia is like a tough pre-school for Hollywood. And having been on 'Neighbours,' even though the agents I met with hadn't seen it, they knew it's where Russell Crowe and Guy Pearce had come from. It was a foot in the door.
It's tough when take 1 is technically okay and take 2 has better acting. Out here (Hollywood) they print the first one. That's the one where we all hit the mark on the floor and who cares about the acting.
At the time I came along, Hollywood's idea of teen movies meant there had to be a lot of nudity, usually involving boys in pursuit of sex, and pretty gross overall. Either that or a horror movie. And the last thing Hollywood wanted in their teen movies was teenagers!
And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.
Hollywood is the dream factory, and no one dreams about older women.
Don't make your living with cinema because Hollywood will take you, will eat you, will destroy you. This is the reality. You have a good picture, have success, you take the person and they destroy you.
Hollywood is a wonderful machine for making big movies. In France, we make smaller and more personal films, but if things keep changing, this will disappear. The industry in Italy is practically gone. Cinecitta now is used mostly by filmmakers from others places, like Martin Scorsese.
I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
I think the reason they cast me as the good girls is because they couldn't find any in Hollywood.
The fact that people in Hollywood are open to what I teach is not because they're more desperate than anyone else, but because they're more touched by it. That's not their weakness. It's their strength!
I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter.
Julia Roberts is a favorite. Everybody loves her in the Hollywood community. The public adores her.
I always thought, like everyone, that Hollywood was a superhero factory.
Most people learn all about the Second World War in school, or else, they see so many films put out by Hollywood, that it's easy to think we know exactly what happened.
Every decade or so, Hollywood has an epiphany. It turns out faith-based audiences enjoy going to the movies, too.
People always make these generalized statements about Hollywood, and there's all kinds of people in Hollywood.
My first book, about Ruby Ridge, was made into a miniseries on CBS in 1996, and since then, I've dabbled in Hollywood, pitched a few things, sold a couple of screenplays and a pilot that I wrote with a buddy from Spokane, flirted with seeing 'Citizen Vince' as a film, and most recently, adapted 'The Financial Lives of the Poets' as a script.
I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.
I knew a ton of actors and was friends with them, but I never dated actresses. I tried to date 'normal' people because the Hollywood dating rule is 'one star per couple' because it's quite a challenge to match the egos of two actors.
I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks.
The horror movie will not go away. Look at the change in the Hollywood landscape as a signifier of its durability. At one point it was just one of many styles of films called 'product' that between, say, 1930 and 1970, the movie city ground out like sausages or hula hoops at a rate of four or five a week.
Hollywood executives believe that money is both the be-all and end-all to the moviemaking process.
My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood.
Hollywood is my day job.
I don't own Hollywood.
Making a movie with people of all different ethnicity, all different skin color and different backgrounds, meant that the movie can literally play all around the world. It's not just a blanket whitewash film like most Hollywood films tend to be.
When I lived in Los Angeles, I used to live in the Hollywood Hills, behind Grauman's Theater, and I'd always hit the matinees.
I'm the character actor in Hollywood movies, the girl who has to be annoying so the guy can go to the other girl.
There are definitely roles within this industry that are industry-related, but to be a good actor, you really have to want to act first. At the same time, my goal was never to go to Hollywood to make movies. I think if you come here with that attitude, then you've missed a few steps.
The question now is does Obama have any hope of raising money? I don't think he'll raise it out of the New York people, I don't think he's going to raise it out the Hollywood people, so where's the money going to come from for Barack Obama?
Hollywood itself is a little intimidating and exciting. There's definitely a way to go about approaching it.
