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“In Hollywood, writers are considered only the first draft of human beings.”

“It is no accident that Hitler, Lenin, Pol Pot and other butchers of note took special pains early in their despotic careers to suppress religion and undermine the traditional family. Theophobes would find such a characterization truly horrifying, but it's true. This explains why theophobia - while popular in faculty lounges, journalism seminars and Hollywood bacchanals - has not and probably never will attract a public following of any appreciable influence or size.”

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Author:Tony Snow

“The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.”

Way Age Young Dies Hollywood Discrimination Die Young

Author:Larry Gelbart

“There's no shortage of attention junkies with large breasts in Hollywood but only Michael Moore's are real.”

Real Attention Hollywood Breasts Shortage Junkie

Author:Argus Hamilton

“There is no middle ground in Hollywood; you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.”

Middle Hollywood Mentality Middle Ground

Author:Javier Bardem

“Broadway producers are happy to have a big Hollywood name they can post on the marquee, but most of them assume that television and film stars really can't handle stage work. Too often, they're right.”

Bigs Film Names Stars Stage Television Hollywood Assuming Handle Producers Posts Broadway Film Stars Marquee

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“It takes a pretty strong person, a rather unusual young person, to stand up to ridicule and refuse to give in to temptation. There are so many things today in modern music, on television, and in the movies that portray a life that is nowhere near the life the Lord would have us live. Consequently, we cannot afford to turn to the radio, television, or Hollywood to take our cues about what is right and what is wrong. It is scary to realize that the more we are exposed to Hollywood's version of life, the more we gradually begin to accept it.”

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Author:Robert L. Millet

“Hollywood must be the only place on earth where you can be fired by a man wearing a Hawaiian shirt and a baseball cap.”

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Author:Steve Martin

“There is tremendous inequity in Hollywood and politics, and I would say globally it's challenging to be a woman and succeed.”

Challenges Succeed Hollywood

Author:Julia Louis-Dreyfus

“Glasses are for the brave. I do not need to pretend that I am sighted. People who need glasses and don't wear them are slightly less treacherous than people who don't need them and do-like every shallow Hollywood star who wants to be taken seriously.”

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Author:Greg Proops

“Hollywood has glorified adult premarital sex, and that is unhelpful if your goal is to reduce teen pregnancy and out-of-wedlock births.”

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Author:Joe Lieberman

“I really think that everybody would like to be an actor. Why wouldn't they? It's great work if you can get it. The one thing that prevents most people from saying, 'I'm just gonna go to Hollywood!' is that it seems unrealistic.”

People Ifs Thinking Seems Actors One Thing Hollywood Great Work

Author:Ben Affleck

“There is a perversion, much practised in Hollywood movies, that might be called sado-paternalism, whereby a surrogate father treats a gifted but difficult pupil with derision and constant punishment. The aim is to bring out the best in the victim and to make him into a he-man or...a he-woman.”

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Author:Philip French

“In the late 1930s, both the British and American movie industries made a succession of films celebrating the decency of the British Empire in order to challenge the threatening tide of Nazism and fascism and also to provide employment for actors from Los Angeles's British colony. The best two were Hollywood's Gunga Din and Britain's The Four Feathers...”

“The American independent cinema is as formulaic as Hollywood and one genre is what you might call the 'inaction movie'. The setting is invariably a decaying town in a regional backwater where a catalytic stranger or returning native meets up with a group of sad, eccentric outsiders.”

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Author:Philip French

“Well, everything is constantly evolving and changing. That's what life is all about. But basically Hollywood has lost its focus as a film center. Films are now made all over the world.”

World Wells Made Film Life Is Lost Focus Hollywood Evolve

Author:Kenneth Anger

“To be embraced by Hollywood when I'd been acting professionally for almost 50 years seemed unbelievable. I've been so welcomed in such a warm, generous way - it seemed crazy not to take advantage of it. I hope for another 20 years where I can still keep going.”

Way Years Stills I Can Acting Crazy Advantage Hollywood Warm Generous Keep Going Unbelievable

Author:Jacki Weaver

“I've always wanted to do a movie, and I really feel the urge to do it.I'm in Hollywood - I have no business not being in the movie industry.”

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Author:Ariel Pink

“I just think my family is so normal, but no one wants to accept that. I find my family to be normal because there's an understanding of what every job entails. And it is a job. It's not this fantasy that Hollywood and movies are all glitter and stardust.”

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Author:Elizabeth Olsen

“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.”

Way Heart Made Film Realizing Imagine Hollywood Just Do It No Love Paychecks

Author:Fede Alvarez

“I saw how you could get away with such a free-spirited, naturalistic sensibility in a mainstream Hollywood movie, and you could apply a lot of the skills of the '70s icons that I really admire to a contemporary, commercial movie.”

Saws Skills Hollywood Contemporary Admire Get Away Mainstream Sensibility Icons Spirited Hollywood Movies

Author:David Gordon Green

“I like to break down barriers and I think that Hollywood is doing the same thing over and over. I want to do something new and say, "Let's evolve as artists!"”

Thinking Want Artist Break Hollywood Evolve Barriers Something New Breaking Down

Author:Gina Carano

“The first time I ever intersected with the quote unquote industry or Hollywood or being given a paid job as a director all came because of the reputation I got coming out of Sundance as a veteran Sundance filmmaker.”

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Author:Lynn Shelton

“The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.”

People Stupid Hollywood

Author:Michael Crichton

“You know the hardest thing to do in Hollywood is burn bridges. There is usually some sucker who still likes me. There is usually some sucker who will still work with me.”

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Author:Terry Gilliam

“People don't have to be beautiful any more. We don't have any Audrey Hepburns, Rita Hayworths or Ava Gardeners. When you look at Al Pacino and the greatest actors in Hollywood they're all common-looking.”

People Looks Beautiful Actors Common Hollywood Als Gardener Hepburn Audrey

Author:Omar Sharif

“I have a silicone bust, and half of Hollywood - artificial person.”

Persons Half Hollywood Artificial

Author:Pamela Anderson

“Women inevitably have to work a little bit harder to be heard. Hollywood is disgustingly sexist. It's crazy.”

Littles Bits Heard Crazy Little Bit Hollywood Harder Sexist

Author:Kristen Stewart

“I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and I've been able to stay a float. I think the next logical step in my career would be to start my own filmmaking empire like (Harvey Weinstein) and (Bob Weinstein) did so many years ago. I think if only the unions weren't so strict in Boston, I'd set up shop there and make films of a certain quality you don't see represented these days. I'm full of ideas and dreams.”

“I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker. Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it... Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it.”

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Author:John Cameron Mitchell

“It [culture] invites people to diminish themselves, and dehumanize themselves by behaving like machines, meme processors of memes passed down from Madison Avenue, and Hollywood, and what have you.”

People Culture Hollywood Machines Invites Diminish Avenues Madison Memes Processors Madison Avenue

Author:Terence McKenna

“I don't remember, at 19, someone giving me a golden key and saying, 'Welcome to Hollywood; which job would you like?'”

Giving Jobs Remember Keys Hollywood Golden Welcome

Author:Jessica Capshaw

“There's a lot of actors I think that appear so much more together as the characters they portray as opposed to the actual people, so I know I've said this before: Hollywood's not a place where you're rewarded for growing up.”

People Thinking Knows Said Character Together Actors Growing Up Growing Hollywood

Author:Ryan Reynolds

“I remember first seeing Barney Kessel, in the 1940s, standing on the corner of Hollywood and Vine, in his cowboy boots, sun glasses and hipster threads, holding his guitar case man, you just knew that cat could wail!'”

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Author:Anita O'Day

“Hollywood-a place where the inmates are in charge of the asylum.”

Hollywood Asylums Inmates

Author:Laurence Stallings

“I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.”

Thinking Stories Film Position Deserve Hollywood Obvious Mainstream

Author:Diablo Cody

“I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans. You can be passionate about a show, but I don't think that people are obsessed to the point where it's so manic that they lose themselves and they lose a sense of their center of morality.”

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Author:Matthew Davis

“I don't know what the misconceptions are, but I approach a small budget, artsy, independent movie in the same way as a big budget, commercial Hollywood movie. I don't get into those [details]. I have to get into my character and I concentrate on that, on the story, on researching, and on certain training if I have to be prepared physically. I think that's the most important thing.”

“Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood.”

Way Different Problem Found Hollywood Different Ways Mainstream Reverse

Author:Sylvester Stallone

“For us it's always about making sure that there's substance, that things are well thought out, they're real, they're going to happen versus just haphazardly making Hollywood type announcements. So that's where we are there [on Comic-Con], just making sure that when we do something to say that it's something.”

Wells Real Happens Type Hollywood Comic Substance Versus Announcements Comic Con

Author:Thomas Tull

“Initially, before I came to Hollywood, I thought that the language barrier would be the biggest challenge, but I realized that actors all around the world, regardless of language, are all the same.”

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Author:Kim Jee-woon

“I met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived here to be a comedy writer in Hollywood. I thought he was super green, in terms of this world, but he knows so much about the world that we're attempting to write about.”

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Author:Josh Gad

“I just wanted to do hair in the movies and in Hollywood, and made it work.”

Made Wanted Hair Hollywood Made It

Author:Howard Berger

“I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films; I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.”

Want Stories Film Certain Goal Hollywood Ultimate Ultimate Goal

Author:Kim Jee-woon

“I've always been kind of picky because I've always been interested in lots of different things. I chose to take three years off and go to school, and that helped keep me sane. Hollywood can make you crazy, if all you're thinking about is your next job.”

Ifs Thinking Years Kind Different School Jobs Three Next Crazy Hollywood Different Things Three Years Sane Picky

Author:Jordana Brewster

“Once you've written a good script, it will get made or not get made, according to variables you cannot control, like stars getting interested, and the superstitions in Hollywood rising or falling around what is over and done with versus what's in.”

Made Done Fall Stars Written Hollywood Scripts Rising Superstitions Versus Variables

Author:Jon Spaihts

“I grew up a really nerdy kid. I read science fiction and fantasy voraciously, for the first 16 years of my life. I read a lot of classic Cold War science fiction, which is much of the best science fiction, so I speak the language well, which is a commodity that's not easy to come by in Hollywood.”

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Author:Jon Spaihts

“The irony is I did an intimate film in France with no stars and that got me to Hollywood. It got me to the Oscars. If I had tried to imitate the Americans or the Hollywood movies with a commercial recipe, I'd never have gotten to Hollywood. Although, it was not my goal in any way, and I never thought there was any connection between Monsieur Lazhar and the Oscars.”

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Author:Philippe Falardeau

“I don't think the film is going to work for everybody, period. It wasn't meant to be done for everybody. I didn't four quadrant this movie, like Hollywood did. I knew it was a very specific audience that was there. We're also taking a shot in the dark.”

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Author:Joseph M. Kahn

“Once you got Hollywood doing these kinds of movies and having all the, how you say, the tools to do it, and also to keep on finding new ways of doing it becomes - Hollywood can be avant garde on what concerns action.”

Way Kind Action Findings Concern Tools Hollywood New Ways Avant Garde

Author:Violante Placido

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