It's a very odd thing with Hollywood, where you do stand-up, you're good at it, then they go, "How would you like to be a horrible actor?" Then you say, "All right, that sounds good. I'll do that."
I'm not trying to conquer Hollywood. I love my day job.
I don't have this crazy dream about going to Hollywood, because I really love to watch movies and do movies that are complicated, and I want more strange things and complicated things.
Making a movie in Hollywood is a bit like playing a board game, where you have to throw a six to start.
There just are not a lot of overweight people in Hollywood.
To be honest, I miss the old Hollywood way of having some mystique about the star.
Hollywood always likes to create a star.
I was in Hollywood. It's the mythology heart. It's where all the European films came in the '30s and '40s. The marriage between Europe and Hollywood has always been the best when it works.
If the Wizard of Oz were real he would be in Hollywood.
It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood.
There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false.
I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.
What you're really after when you see a film or listen to a song is a singular vision, and I'm not sure how much of that you really get in Hollywood.
Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see.
I didn't come to Hollywood to be subservient to anyone else's vision.
Hollywood in many ways serves as the unofficial ministry of propaganda for the United States.
It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do.
I, like most people, came out to Hollywood to get into movies.
I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.
My spirit had been broken a bit over the years by my having to work on films I didn't love. Hollywood's a surreal place, and it really is an assault on your spirit.
I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".
I would love to play Wonder Woman; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.
We always say about Hollywood that it's a company town and it's sort of is. It's like in Washington, they say, you know, the company is the government.
The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.
If two percent of all the films made in Hollywood are really artistically worthy - and I think it's a lot more than two percent - that's a pretty big percentage of things that will outlive their own generation.
