Hollywood Quotes - Page 22

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood.

I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.

What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.

It was certainly a good death scene. I'm endlessly perishing in roles but it's a wonderful thing to be asked to do.

I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were.

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing, I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.

Bette Davis taught Hollywood to follow an actress instead of the actress following the camera, and she's probably the best movie actress there's ever been.

What guided Chaplin was the proper protection of self-interest (or craziness). So Chapling, Douglas Fairbanks, and Mark Pickford, with DW Griffith and William S Hart, made an alliance, called United Artists, whereby they would own a distribution company that would market their pictures, allowing them a greater return than if they leased the movies to some outside distributor.

I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

A director in Hollywood in my time couldn't do what he wanted to do.

I feel like Hollywood would rather end the emerging, bottom-up creative culture than let it happen.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes.

I live in Italy part time, and they're obsessed with what's happening in LA too. They make fun of Americans, but the world wants to know what's going on in Hollywood.

It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.

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.

It's funny... you can make fun of AIDS or Haiti, but if you make fun of some starlet in Hollywood's looks? That's like the one thing... the line you are not to cross.

In Hollywood, after you get a little success, the next thing you usually get is a divorce.

I could not flourish in the Hollywood system because the first thing spoken about is "What genre is it?" and "Who's it for?" It's a very strange question to me; it's for human beings.

Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood.

Hollywood. It lacks originality. Remake sucks.' But I had to look deeper into it from my own perspective. We are not trying to compete with the original at all and that's what allowed me to pull the trigger without any hesitancy.

Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.

I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.