“A screenwriter heard me read from my novel 'The Wishbones' when it was still in progress and mentioned me to some producers in Hollywood. They called, and I told them I had a novel in my drawer about a high school election that goes haywire. They asked to take a look, and my life changed pretty dramatically as a result.” LooksStillsSchoolResultsNovelProgressHeardChangedHigh SchoolHollywoodElectionProducersLife ChangingScreenwritersDrawersWishbones Author:Tom Perrotta
“I think I came along at an opportune time. I don't know if that would happen anymore, because the whole way of doing business in Hollywood has changed.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayWholeHappensChangedHollywood Author:Sylvester Stallone
“Things have really changed here in Hollywood. Used to be people in this town couldn't wait to get an envelope full of white powder.” PeopleFunnyUsedWaitingWhiteChangedHollywoodTownsUsed To BeCaliforniaEnvelopesPowder Author:Jay Leno
“The capacity for loving strangers, whether one thinks of them as fictional beings or stars one will never meet, is a profound reflection on the new consciousness whereby every individual leads his or life while aware of all the billions of other people on Earth. Perhaps it is a fantasy or a fallacy that we can feel for so many strangers. Perhaps it is a mask for selfishness. But no matter the modern stress on special effects, there isn't a sight in movies as momentous as shots of a face as its mind is being changed. And only movies have allowed that.” PeopleThinkingFeelsMindMatterEarthFilmFacesIndividualStarsConsciousnessFantasyModernSpecialEffectsChangedReflectionShotsCapacityHollywoodSightStressProfoundStrangerBillionsSelfishnessMaskFallacySpecial Effects Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“Who can now deny the loss of natural light, of skin tones, of real place, and common but precious things in our movies, to be replaced by the gorgeous imagery of things that have never been and never will be? The most special effect in movies is always the human face when its mind is being changed.” MindHumansRealLightFilmFacesNaturalLossCommonSpecialEffectsChangedHollywoodSkinsDenyToneReplacedGorgeousImagerySpecial EffectsPrecious ThingsHuman FacesNatural LightSkin Tone Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back.” ThinkingKnowsWorldLostKnow HowChangedHollywood Author:Roy Rogers
“All has changed, thanks to Joe Eszterhas' life-threatening battle with throat cancer. He announced in "The New York Times" that he and Hollywood had blood on their hands and now Eszterhas is crusading to stop Hollywood's glamorization of smoking.” HandsBloodNew YorkChangedBattleHollywoodCancerThanksSmokingThroatThreateningNew York TimesThroat Cancer Author:Joe Eszterhas
“Hollywood changed to become a more marketing-driven Hollywood, where people who are running the studios are more like marketing people, and they need titles.” PeopleNeedsRunningChangedHollywoodMarketingStudiosDrivenTitles Author:Alexandre Aja
“Hollywood is a changing world these days. This is one of the things that ought to be changed.” WorldChangedOughtHollywoodThese Days Author:Paul Newman
“Hollywood infected my brain and I really valued the wrong things in life, but I changed dramatically.” BrainChangedHollywoodThings In LifeWrong Things Author:Marina and the Diamonds
“I arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me.” NamesHistoryChangedHollywoodTeethNosesFixed Author:Barbra Streisand
“I don't know what they call Hollywood anymore. The whole meaning of the town has changed.” KnowsWholeChangedHollywoodTowns Author:Claire Trevor