Hollywood Quotes - Page 52

Hollywood is the model for publishing, more and more. Not just blockbusters either.

Sometimes, in the dressing room, I think I am in Hollywood.

Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals.

I tell this joke about Barack Obama is the best communicator of our generation: The guy reads a teleprompter better than any Hollywood actor. John McCain, his opponent - Stevie Wonder reads a teleprompter better than John McCain.

Hollywood, to hear some writers tell it, is the place where they take an author's steak tartare and make cheeseburger out of it. Upon seeing the film, they say, the author promptly cuts his throat, bleeding to death in a pool of money.

Every day I spend in Hollywood I start to realize how many films are made with no heart and no love. They just do it for the paycheck and I cannot imagine making a film that way.

There is a lot of strength and intelligence in Hollywood.

Does Hollywood do movies about terrorism? Yeah. And why do they do that? Because it sells.

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.

I won`t buy into the Hollywood thing...I want to be in good movies.

I didn't grow up in a home that glorified Hollywood. We didn't watch TV. We didn't have a lot of magazines around.

I had a friend in high school who badly wanted to make movies and would recruit me as an actor. It was always so much fun. I decided, I'm going to go to Hollywood and make movies, which is a thought I'd never had before.

Most scripts that get written in Hollywood dont go anywhere.

I've never considered myself to be naturally funny and it wasn't until I booked my first few jobs in Hollywood that I started thinking, "I guess I'm funny."

I have a theory that most people in Hollywood are from Texas.

When you're reading Thoreau you look at Hollywood differently, let me tell ya!

Gear is money, and if there’s one thing we know about Hollywood, it’s that money talks.

Without homosexuals there'd be no Hollywood.

The way it works in Hollywood is that if you're hot it doesn't matter if you're right for the part or not, you're just offered it.

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

The Deer Hunter is securely on my list of American movie events, by which I mean those films that aspired to the whole equation, to be show business and art at the same time.

In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century'. That's what the Academy was always for - to blur the equation enough so that profit and fame could be called art.

In the first week of the showings of the The Matrix Revolutions, The Godfather and The Godfather Part II played on cable television. I started watching, and I was held; I wanted to go through the process again. Can anyone credit that 30 years from now there will be an audience for the three parts of The Matrix, anywhere? Even if Keanu Reeves is our president by then?

I regret the way that America has elected to make films for its bluntest section of society and in ways that flatter them, and we have to recognize how much that is being done for money. We have to find another way of measuring ourselves. And film is one of the few ways that might be done.

All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.