I'm not after having the lead or being in a blockbuster Hollywood film. I'm after reading the material and loving it. That's all.
I think, honestly, that the word 'indie' is a false gimmick. 'Independent' used to mean a movie that was financed outside corporate Hollywood, but a lot of what gets called independent these days is totally produced within that system. And there's nothing wrong with that.
I don't have many Hollywood friends anyway; I thought with my ability I didn't need to make those kind of relationships, but maybe I should have done. Might have made my life easier!
I grew up in a small, strictly-Catholic fishing village on the coast of Wales. The people there have a different attitude to life than those in Hollywood - people stick together more.
When you get to Hollywood, it takes you out of your life. It makes you feel cool when you think about all the great things to come out of this town.
There are some movie stars in Hollywood that are so scared, they also tell the reporter that they are recording them, in case there is something wrong with what they wrote about them in the papers.
A financial shift happened with 'Facing the Giants' and 'Fireproof,' where movies that were faith-based films were profitable. And people in Hollywood - like people in downtown U.S.A. - are out to make money.
Content financing is a difficult beast no matter what era of Hollywood we're talking about.
If there was no Hollywood, no next movie, no deal at Warner Brothers, no place in Malibu or Venice, I would still be really happy.
I'm trying to bring a real man back to Hollywood.
In any art form, in Hollywood or in music, there is a handful of people who really, you know, move the envelope.
'All the Stars in the Heavens' takes place during the golden age of Hollywood, around an imagined story about Loretta Young; Clark Gable; Alda, a young woman with a secret who is preparing to become a nun but is cast out of her convent; and the scenic artist she meets on the set of 'The Call of the Wild.' It's a big, lush historical novel.
It's really weird casting babies; it's kind of the dark underbelly of Hollywood, to meet babies and judge them.
While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me.
Hollywood can be hard on women, but it did not cause my problems.
I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles.
Satisfying as that 'Cabaret' role was, it is not the only thing I do. But Hollywood is somewhat limited in its perspective about what it is you do or don't do.
I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.
Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies.
The ultimate dream is a star in the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
The British film industry has always tried to sell itself as something rather sophisticated. It's almost as if it thinks it is by royal command. It has always tried to claim the high ground, not only over Hollywood but over the whole of humanity!
Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie.
I'll just say that there are certain people who continue to be hired in Hollywood, and that leaves me truly shocked.
My survival skills are very good for Hollywood. Beyond that, I'm not really sure.
There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.
I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
There was a golden era in film-making in Hollywood back in the 1970s, and although there is some great independent film-making in America, it's actually very hard to get independent films made in the United States. It's much more feasible from Europe.
I don't necessarily need Hollywood.
Hollywood, it seems, recognizes black film and black filmmakers, but like a distant lover, never close enough or long enough to forge a meaningful relationship.
If I would characterize my life, I would say that I was a very lucky actor who came into very lucky times, and got to Hollywood, and was put under contract by Warners in the very last days of the studio contract era, and was privileged to go through that time which is gone now.
When I was a kid, I loved Elvis, and Harrison Ford as Indiana Jones. But I had no connection to Hollywood - and being a movie star was such a far-fetched idea, growing up in Hawaii.
I just want choices. It's not about making money and having a lot of friends in Hollywood; that's the last thing I want.
Hollywood is a very small world; the people who matter matter, and the people who don't matter are just like nothing.
We have a responsibility to show the public the kinds of truths that they don't see on the TV news or the Hollywood film.
I feel like a lot of people think of Hollywood as being fake, but it's only perceived that way because it takes 10 people to make someone look the way that they do. In reality, they're there because they are doing what they're passionate about.
I am strong-willed, which can be annoying sometimes. And from that I think people assume I have confidence and Hollywood glamour and all that stuff, when actually, in my personal life, sometimes I'm just a goofball.
