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“At the time I came along, Hollywoods 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!”

Ideas Wanted Lasts Sex Boys Horror Hollywood Pursuit Teenager Gross Involving Nudity

Author:John Hughes

“I'm not a Hollywood guy.”

Guy Hollywood

Author:Kevin James

“The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.”

Thinking Knows World Lost Know How Changed Hollywood

Author:Roy Rogers

“I know an awful lot of Hollywood people, who are so self-important, I can't understand it.”

People Knows I Can Important Self Literature Hollywood Awful

Author:Mickey Spillane

“Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.”

People Different Hard Film Fantasy Hard Work Truth Is Directors Hollywood Glamour

Author:John Carpenter

“The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.”

Ifs Children Grows Parent Growing Up Effects Adults Hollywood Movie Recreation Plausible

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.”

Littles Hard Guy Hollywood

Author:James Caan

“I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.”

Purpose Parent Saws Grew Industry Grew Up Doctors Hollywood California Surgeons Motion Pictures Peacefulness

Author:Spencer Johnson

“If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.”

Ifs Eye Past Stars Directors Hollywood Performances Fading Great Performance

Author:Lee Grant

“[The Player is] not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.”

Ifs Self Player Hollywood Truthful Sadistic Indictment

Author:Robert Altman

“Tree-hugging, Birkenstock-wearing, hippie, tie-dyed liberals [in Hollywood should]... go make their movies and their music and whine somewhere else.... It's just too damn bad we didn't buy them a ticket [to become human shields in Iraq].”

Should Humans Tree Hollywood Iraq Damn Ties Hug Tickets Somewhere Else Shields Hippie Birkenstocks

Author:Jim Gibbons

“That wasn't an ending. It was just a stopping point.”

Film Hollywood Stopping

Author:Robert Altman

“There's nothing better than being in an asylum, if you're going to have a bunch of crazy people in an asylum, and they're all beautiful Hollywood actresses.”

People Ifs Beautiful Crazy Hollywood Actresses Bunch Asylums Crazy People

Author:John Carpenter

“One of the things that struck me as unique about Hollywood is that I never had bad meetings. There were all enthusiastic, but meaninglessly enthusiastic.”

Unique Hollywood Meetings Enthusiastic

Author:Mark Leyner

“I don't think a Hollywood actor is safe from acting in the rain: it all depends on the film.”

Thinking Film Actors Acting Depends Safe Rain Hollywood

Author:Isabella Rossellini

“I think my mother became the muse because she had everything when she was in Hollywood: she had the marriage, the success, the money, all the films she wanted to do and yet even her, she had a longing and wanted to work with a film that had meaning, something more profound. And I think that was very touching to father.”

Thinking Wanted Film Mother Father Hollywood Longing Profound Touching Muse Meaning Something

Author:Isabella Rossellini

“You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different and you get kicked in the gut for it.”

Want Different Audience Directors Hollywood Critics Guts Again And Again

Author:David Ayer

“If I was American, I think I'd live in New York, because I like that East Coast mentality. There's nothing wrong with Hollywood. If you want to be a big time filmmaker, you should go to Hollywood.”

Ifs Thinking Want Should Bigs New York Hollywood East Filmmaker Mentality Coast East Coast

Author:Danny Boyle

“For me, trying to expand the energy to make one movie in Hollywood would be the equivalent in terms of energy to making 10 movies in Japan.”

Trying Would Be Energy Term Hollywood Japan

Author:Takashi Miike

“When you're dealing with Hollywood people, it creates a tight, tense atmosphere through the whole thing. And I don't like to work in that kind of atmosphere. I like to make my movies in a kind of relaxed atmosphere.”

People Kind Whole Hollywood Atmosphere Relaxed Tense

Author:Takashi Miike

“Dune was really my first Hollywood job. It was such a small part, but I opened the movie. I was about 19 years old and I had to make this speech, and I didn't understand most of the words because they were, you know, words from Dune.”

Knows Years Firsts Jobs Speech Hollywood Small Parts

Author:Virginia Madsen

“As I say, there's something that scares the hell out of me but it really makes me work hard in losing myself. I'm not really interested in me as an actor or being a personality player, or a Hollywood star. What's given to me is to become different people and to find the truth of that. That is really what I do.”

People Different Hard Actors Given Stars Hell Player Hard Work Personality Losing Hollywood Scare Different Peoples Losing Myself Hollywood Stars

Author:David Suchet

“The great exception to that, of course, is Johnny Depp, who is absolutely the ultimate character actor. Johnny Depp is the future of the character actor and thanks to his success maybe we will see the return of an era when my sort of actor is back in vogue. It's not in vogue for me to be in Hollywood movies as lots of different people.”

People Different Character Courses Actors Return Hollywood Ultimate Thanks Eras Exception Different Peoples Vogue Character Actors Hollywood Movies

Author:David Suchet

“And so you try your best. Sometimes you go in with one thing, with one desire and come out with something else. In the case of 'The Aviator' it was to create a Hollywood spectacle, but by about the second or third week of shooting you just want to literally survive it. Because don't forget, I also go through the editing process too, and when the film is released I have to talk about it. So, I take all of that very seriously.”

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Author:Martin Scorsese

“es, I spend a lot of time in Reading because we live in Oxfordshire and so we're always just in and out of each other's houses. It's very much the family that it always has been. But there's no comparison with Hollywood as such.”

Has Beens Reading House Hollywood Comparison

Author:Kate Winslet

“Every job in Hollywood is a risk. You don't know, when you sign a contract, if something is going to pop, you don't know whether this or that network is going to support your show. You just show up and do the best work you can do, gravitate towards the best material, you know, and try to make the right choices. And the rest of it is a roll of the dice.”

Ifs Knows Trying Shows Jobs Choices Can Do Support Risk Materials Hollywood Pops Contracts Do The Best Best Work Dice Right Choices Make The Right Choice

Author:Donnie Wahlberg

“I'm never in Hollywood! I'm a theatre actor that lives in New York. I'm very seldom in Los Angeles. I don't dislike LA, I just don't think it's a very healthy place for me to be all the time. When I'm shooting a movie there and am working I'm perfectly happy. But when I'm not working or engaged in something it's a place that I wouldn't live.”

Thinking Actors New York Healthy Hollywood Theatre Shooting Engaged Los Angeles Dislike Theatre Actors

Author:Willem Dafoe

“We've tried as hard as we can into keep the ideas intact in the hail storm that is Hollywood, so, whether he is or not, I'm personally proud of what I've been able to jam down their throats.”

Ideas Hard Able Proud Hollywood Storm Throat Jam Hail

Author:Zack Snyder

“I've been trying to bust into the comedy business my whole life. It's hard in Hollywood to do different things. I know this. It's a struggle.”

Knows Trying Different Hard Whole Struggle Comedy Hollywood Whole Life Different Things

Author:Luke Wilson

“Шn Hollywood actresses say they can't go above a size 6. I think everybody is operating in this huge bubble of fear. I don't think the world will come crashing down on you if you're a size 8.”

Ifs Thinking World Huge Hollywood Size Actresses Bubbles Crashing Down

Author:Anne Hathaway

“It's hard to not get typed in Hollywood. They really want to type you. I'm trying to avoid that, because I want to do a lot of things. I know what I'm capable of. I forgive them because they don't know. They haven't seen me play Hamlet. They're not going to cast me as an English aristocrat. I'm going to have to prove that on my own. That's okay. That's what you have to fight for if you want to be an artist.”

Ifs Knows Want Trying Hard Play Artist Fighting My Own Havens Type Prove Capable Okay Hollywood Forgiving Casts

Author:Sam Rockwell

“I don't think people are interested in my personal life. I've never had a Hollywood life. I've always been a worker.”

People Thinking Hollywood Workers Personal Life Hollywood Life

Author:Willem Dafoe

“France can compete with the Hollywood studios in terms of animation savoir-faire, but not in terms of box-office figures. France is a small country, and the Americans are the masters of the world - for cinema, it's true.”

World Country Term Figures Masters Office Hollywood Boxes Studios France Cinema Animation Box Office Small Countries Hollywood Studios Savoir Faire

Author:Michel Ocelot

“Film is universal. All the countries of the world are making films. Hollywood is the only major unsubsidized center for films. To my knowledge all others are at least partially subsidized. I'm glad Hollywood isn't.”

World Country Film Majors Hollywood Universal Glad Countries Of The World

Author:Frank Capra

“The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.”

Thinking Way Real Mother Given Voice Inspiring Audience Missing Honesty Members Hollywood Saint Motherhood Mothers Day

Author:Ellen Barkin

“I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough.”

Made Tough Hollywood Bullets

Author:Lee Daniels

“Everyone gets laid off and everyone in Hollywood gets unemployment for six months while they're looking for a new job. So I would just do stand-up for six months and think I was really making it, and when my unemployment ran out, I had to get another job immediately.”

Thinking Jobs Months Six Hollywood Ran Unemployment Six Months New Job Getting Laid Laid Off

Author:Anthony Jeselnik

“I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.”

Feels Stories Actors Fiction Like You Creating Hollywood Movie Filmmaking Canvas Creating Something Hollywood Movies

Author:George Hickenlooper

“I probably wouldn't be acting if I didn't grow up in Hollywood.”

Ifs Grows Acting Growing Up Hollywood

Author:Rashida Jones

“Here's how you get Hollywood in Positano: You need a nail salon and a yogurt place.”

Needs Hollywood Nails Yogurt Salons

Author:Anne Hathaway

“In Hollywood, you've got a hundred people on set, and shooting the sex scene you're wearing nude-toned underwear and tape on your nipples. Nothing is going beyond where you want it to go.”

People Want Sex Scene Hundred Hollywood Shooting Tape Underwear Nipples

Author:Lena Dunham

“Mainstream Hollywood makes a few good movies a year. And in order to be in one of those, you have to be one of five people. Hollywood makes many bad movies too, which I'm not interested in being a part of. But there are only a few good independent movies a year, and many, many bad ones. I want to be in good movies, and I want people to see them.”

People Want Years Order Five Hollywood Independent Mainstream Not Interested Good Movie Bad Movies

Author:Maggie Gyllenhaal

“I approached work very seriously. I never went out. I couldn't fathom people who could go out to clubs... But I definitely went through a time where I was just terrified and exhausted and I didn't really understand. Hollywood... It just got to be too much for me.”

People Too Much Hollywood Clubs Terrified Exhausted Fathom

Author:Winona Ryder

“I've found that Hollywood's a really honest business. They don't pull any punches. They tell you exactly what you want-I want the fake breasts and the flat car and the big pool. You know, they're real up-front about it.”

Knows Want Real Bigs Found Honest Car Fronts Hollywood What You Want Fake Breasts Flats Pool

Author:Val Kilmer

“I think being a woman in Hollywood is a big enough challenge. It really is. I don't want to be one of those people who complain. But the lack of roles out there - it's unbelievable.”

People Thinking Want Enough Bigs Challenges Roles Hollywood Complaining Unbelievable Being A Woman

Author:Eva Mendes

“I like the idea of challenging Hollywood on its own turf. It's important to do that.”

Important Ideas Challenges Hollywood Turf

Author:Bruno Dumont

“There is a lot that I will not do in Hollywood.”

Hollywood

Author:Tone Bell

“For me to start working, projects have to catch my attention whether they are here (in the USA) or in Mexico. All I want is to be involved in projects that are interesting to me, projects that are a challenge wherever they may happen, in Spain, in China, or in Hollywood.”

Want May Happens Challenges Interesting Attention Involved Projects Hollywood China Usa Mexico Spain

Author:Kate del Castillo

“I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.”

People Done Majors Hollywood Great Times Had A Great Time

Author:Al Franken

“I love regal looks on the Oscars red carpet. I just love old-Hollywood glamour. I love hair pulled back off the face, beautiful makeup...long sleeves are really elegant. The Oscars are not a place to be too flirty or fun or sexy.”

Looks Long Beautiful Faces Fun Hair Red Hollywood Sexy Makeup Oscars Elegant Carpet Glamour Sleeves Red Carpet Flirty Regal Old Hollywood Hollywood Glamour

Author:Giuliana Rancic

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