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“I think the children of Hollywood are more influential than the parents.”

Thinking Children Parent Hollywood Influential

“I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.”

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Author:Tilda Swinton

“For the most part Hollywood is a world of imagination.”

World Imagination Hollywood

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“Hollywood is so strange because a lot of times the battlefield is just a meeting. It's not necessarily like an audition. They've seen clips of you and they know that you can perform and it's a matter of "what is your take on a character"?”

Knows Matter Character Strange Hollywood Meetings Auditions Battlefields Clip

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“Doing a film with your friend is probably the best way to end that friendship but we worked together really well. We just have that thing. Chemistry is something that... I just think it is the last thing in Hollywood, the last magical thing they haven't computerised. There's nothing you can do about it - it's either there or it's not and it doesn't matter if you're friends or not. It was just a bonus that we were.”

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Author:Ryan Reynolds

“The first time I had got an offer to come to Hollywood, I turned it down. I said, "No, I'm an actor of the stage.”

Firsts Said Actors Stage Offers First Time Hollywood

Author:Kirk Douglas

“I went to Hollywood to test for Martha Ivers and I thought I was going to play the part that Van Heflin played.But they wanted me to play the part of Barbara Stanwyck's husband, so I played that. Then when I finished the movie, I went back to Broadway and did another flop.”

Play Wanted Husband Tests Hollywood Finished Broadway Vans Barbara

Author:Kirk Douglas

“When I made Spartacus during the McCarthy Era, we were losing our freedom. It was an awful, awful way. McCarthy saw Communists everywhere, in every level of government and they concentrated on Hollywood and especially on Hollywood writers.”

Way Made Government Levels Saws Losing Hollywood Awful Eras Communist Spartacus

Author:Kirk Douglas

“You know, making fun of the excessiveness and the priorities that are most stilted out here which does make it difficult to have a very sort of grounded, normal life because there's really nothing normal about Hollywood.”

Knows Doe Fun Difficult Normal Hollywood Priorities Grounded Normal Life Excessiveness

Author:Debra Messing

“I think Hollywood has always, you know, there's always been glamour associated to it. And especially in the last ten years there has been a growing sort of obsession with celebrity life and celebrity culture.”

Thinking Knows Years Has Beens Lasts Culture Growing Ten Hollywood Obsession Glamour Celebrity Culture Celebrity Life

Author:Debra Messing

“Well I would say that, you know, I agree in part with that it [The Starter Wife] is fantasy and it is a romp in that, you know, the comedy stems from shining a light on the sort of more extreme aspects of the Hollywood culture. So, you know, anytime you turn up the gas, so to speak, on the stove and make things more extreme it becomes funny. But I do think that, you know, the other half of the show is absolutely relatable and that's been an important goal of ours.”

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Author:Debra Messing

“You know, unfortunately divorce it happens in Kansas as much as it does in Hollywood. And, you know, women having to start over at 40, you know, for the first time in their life having to find a career and being a single parent and having to date. You know, all of those things happen everywhere in the world. It's not just Los Angeles. So I would defend the fact that there are, you know, there are other reasons to watch than just to get a laugh.”

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Author:Debra Messing

“The one thing you can count on in Hollywood - across the board - is cowardice.”

One Thing Hollywood Boards Cowardice

Author:Sean Penn

“One of the things you have to understand with The Room, I never approached a studio to produce, because I know no one in Hollywood will produce this. I came to Hollywood and I said "I will produce this movie the way I want it."”

Knows Way Want Said Rooms Produce Hollywood Studios

Author:Tommy Wiseau

“Hollywood needs peripheral people like me. You're not of that world, but you're needed.”

People World Needs Needed Hollywood Like Me

Author:Kevin Sessums

“I don't like the vulgarity of Oscars weekend, but it's also sweet. It's prom weekend for anyone who didn't experience the real prom: the nerds, gay, arty outsiders. Hollywood is high school with money.”

Real School Sweet Gay High School Hollywood Weekend Outsiders Oscars Nerd Vulgarity Prom

Author:Kevin Sessums

“The biggest problem in countries that don't have a tradition in animation or a film industry, is that precisely, that it's not an industrial activity as it is in Hollywood where there are clear production procedures. Because of this we all become snipers making our films any way we can and crossing our fingers to get distribution so people can see them.”

People Way Country Problem Film Clear Industry Activity Tradition Hollywood Fingers Productions Distribution Animation Procedures Crossings Film Industry Snipers

Author:Raul Garcia

“I think Hollywood has gone in a disastrous path. It's terrible. The years of cinema that were great were the '30s, '40s, not so much the '50s...but then the foreign films took over and it was a great age of cinema as American directors were influenced by them and that fueled the '50s and '60s and '70s.”

Thinking Years Age Film Gone Path Terrible Directors Hollywood Cinema

Author:Woody Allen

“My mother's whole family had been from the theater, really. Because I grew up in Hollywood, I wasn't that interested in Hollywood. But the New York theater was completely exotic and fabulous to me.”

Whole Mother New York Grew Grew Up Hollywood Theater Fabulous Exotic Whole Family

Author:Tony Goldwyn

“There are very few distributors left to do off-Hollywood movies, and those distributors generally have got thousands of movies to choose from. So you're pretty lucky if you get one to even take your movie and it's pretty rare that they pay anything upfront.”

Ifs Left Pay Lucky Hollywood Hollywood Movies Distributors You Re Pretty

Author:John Sayles

“Going through your late teens and early 20s is not an easy time, especially in Hollywood. So you just learn your lessons, you make your mistakes and you move on.”

Moving Easy Mistake Lessons Late Hollywood Teens Early 20s

Author:Reagan Gomez-Preston

“As far as drug abuse and all that - listen, this is Hollywood. I don't know how I was able to avoid it, but I'm lucky that I did.”

Knows Able Know How Drug Lucky Hollywood Abuse Drug Abuse

Author:Reagan Gomez-Preston

“I don't take Hollywood too seriously. I have kids that don't give a damn about what I'm shooting, they just want dinner. So that keeps me grounded.”

Want Giving Kids Hollywood Dinner Shooting Damn Grounded Don't Give A Damn

Author:Reagan Gomez-Preston

“Big movies are fun and it`s great to fly on private jets and make a lot of money and all the things that are connected with Hollywood, but they take a lot of your own life.”

Bigs Fun Hollywood Connected Lots Of Money Jet Big Movie Private Jet

Author:Val Kilmer

“Hollywood has turned into an emotional Detroit.”

Emotional Hollywood Detroit

Author:Lillian Gish

“In Hollywood, it's hard to be funny, because all the big jokes are in Washington.”

Hard Bigs Jokes Hollywood

Author:Rich Little

“Whatever happens in Washington, Wall Street, Hollywood or Silicon Vally in the next ten years, it will be irrelevant if our families don't come together at a much higher level. Without a renaissance of family, no new candidate can rise to save us. No new legislation, policy or program will heal our land.”

“It is time to stop talking so much about what kind of leaders we want, to give less lip service to what Washington or Wall Street or Hollywood should do, and to act a lot more like citizens who actually deserve freedom.”

Want Giving Should Kind Talking Leader Streets Wall Citizens Deserve Hollywood Lips Lip Service

Author:Oliver DeMille

“Check out the very best of Hollywood jokes that will make you laugh”

Laughing Jokes Hollywood Checks Make You Laugh

Author:Joan Crawford

“The 1930s Hollywood was capable of hurting me so much. The things about Hollywood that could hurt me (when I first came) can't touch me now. I suddenly decided that they shouldn't hurt me - that was all.”

Firsts Hurt Capable Decided Hollywood Hurt Me 1930s Touch Me

Author:Joan Crawford

“When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster.”

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Author:Joan Crawford

“Sensitive husbands don't like second billing. I don't believe Franchot ever for a moment resented the fact that I was a star. Possibly he resented Hollywood's refusal to let him forget it. There was never a doubt in my mind that his talent was greater than mine.”

Mind Believe Moments Facts Stars Forget Doubt Greater Talent Mines Husband Hollywood Don't Believe Sensitive Forget It Refusal Billing

Book:A Portrait of Joan: The Autobiography of Joan Crawford

Source: A Portrait of Joan: The Autobiography of Joan Crawford

“It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint.”

People Trying Care Stuff Chance Views Gun Hollywood Tragedy Excited

Author:Stephen Gaghan

“There's going to be no more digital enhancements or digital additions to anything based on any film I direct. I'm not going to do any corrections digitally to even wires that show... If 1941 comes on Blu-ray I'm not going to go back and take the wires out because the Blu-ray will bring the wires out that are guiding the airplane down Hollywood Blvd. At this point right now I think letting movies exist in the era, with all the flaws and all of the flourishes, is a wonderful way to mark time and mark history.”

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Author:Steven Spielberg

“When the script for 'The Wrestler' kept coming to me I said, This movie is so good if you put me in the film as a wrestler people are going to say, 'No credibility, Hulk Hogan isn't a good actor,' whatever Hollywood thinks of me.”

People Ifs Thinking Said Film Actors Hollywood Scripts Credibility Think Of Me Good Actors Wrestler

Author:Hulk Hogan

“The British are the last national group who can be insulted by Hollywood without any comeback. These days if you depict Italians as gangsters, Saudis as terrorists or Mexicans as violent drug dealers you'll never hear the end of it. But as still the largest - and possibly the richest - ethnic group in the States, the British just have to take it.”

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Author:Simon Hoggart

“Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.”

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Author:Vince Gilligan

“Hollywood is a place where if you abide by the rules and laws, you can get depressed. That's why faith and spirituality is a higher law.”

Ifs Law Spirituality Higher Hollywood Higher Law

Author:Derek Luke

“Hollywood is still the cradle of many myths, including the one of eternal youth. I find it odd that the very notion of desire, when applied to a woman over 40, is turned into a pathology or a mockery in a number of films. But Hollywood is not the only place to blame, by far. This is just a rendition, possibly magnified by the power of movies, of a general state of things, social, cultural and political.”

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Author:Anne Fontaine

“For a woman to direct a movie in Hollywood, she has to go through so many layers of rejection by the powers that be - I suppose including myself - that it is harder to get to that point. So you can't just create something. And I think there is a whole unconscious mountain.”

Thinking Whole Mountain Direct Hollywood Harder Including Rejection Unconscious Layers

Author:Amy Pascal

“The Hollywood culture is so invasive, and I definitely wanted to be near it eventually.”

Wanted Culture Hollywood

Author:Carmen Ejogo

“I'd like to change the depictions of life, love, and adventure under what's known as the typical, overused backdrop of Hollywood.”

Known Adventure Hollywood Love Life Typical Backdrop Depiction Overused

Author:Romany Malco

“Hollywood is running out of money and in order to keep geetting a third financed, you have to rely on overseas funding, and in order to do that, you have to get recognizable names.”

Running Order Names Hollywood Thirds Rely Funding

Author:Romany Malco

“The saddest and strangest part of Hollywood to me is the fact that millions of dollars are spent on developing works that never get made. It doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand it.”

Made Facts Millions Hollywood Dollars Made It Developing Saddest

Author:Jennifer Westfeldt

“I do think there's a smaller audience that's looking for something that's a little more adult and a little more nuanced [than many Hollywood movies]. At the same time, I think everyone who's making movies hopes to appeal to the widest audience possible.”

Thinking Littles Audience Adults Hollywood Appeals Hollywood Movies

Author:Joe Swanberg

“I have an agent in Hollywood and he's looking for material. If I get the offer and I feel I relate to that material, I will do it. I would love to do a horror film, a thriller, a tearjerker... I like diversity. I would just like to sustain my sense of humour!”

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Author:Carlos Cuaron

“Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.”

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Author:Danny Glover

“When you do stuff as a comedian, Hollywood sees you as a comedian and so most of the calls I get are for a funny movie or something like that.”

Stuff Hollywood Comedian

Author:Cedric the Entertainer

“People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like.”

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Author:Franklin Foer

“I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.”

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Author:Judy Holliday

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