“I had amazing stuff happen right off the top. I thought this was how it worked. Hollywood is awesome! Cut to three years later: What happened?” YearsHappensThreeStuffCuttingHappenedHollywoodThree YearsStuff Happens Author:Dana Fox
“Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and distribute it, so automatically you're never going to be right on the cutting edge of stories.” IfsWritingYearsStoriesCuttingSubjectsProduceCoupleHollywoodEdgesCutting Edge Author:George Clooney
“The whole city gives you the impression of impermanence. You have the feeling that one day someone is going to yell, "Cut! Strike it!" and then the stagehands will scurry out and remove the mountains, the movie-star homes, the Hollywood Bowl--everything.” GivingWholeFeelingsHomeFunnyStarsCitiesCuttingOne DayMountainHollywoodStrikesImpressionRemoveLos AngelesBowlsMovie StarImpermanence Author:Allan Sherman
“I'm an independent filmmaker with complete creative control of my films. I hire who I want. I have final cut. But at the same time, I go directly to Hollywood for financing and distribution. I find it's best for me to work within the Hollywood system.” WantFilmCreativeCuttingHollywoodIndependentFinalsFilmmakerDistributionFinancing Book:Spike Lee: Interviews Source: Spike Lee: Interviews
“I have been working out for 30 years, staying in shape in the dream that someday I would get to play a sex scene. Finally I get one, and they cut it.” YearsHas BeensPlayDreamFilmSexCuttingSceneShapesHollywoodWork OutSomedayStaying Author:William H. Macy
“Hollywood has gone from the capital of conspicuous consumption to the cutting edge of conspicuous conservation.” GoneCuttingHollywoodEdgesConsumptionConservationCutting EdgeConspicuous Consumption Author:Arianna Huffington
“I was absorbing a sorry truth of show business - rejection is the norm and acceptance the oddity. I was learning to cut the tops off my highs and stay with the lows where the rejections and letdowns would be shallow.” ShowsWould BeCuttingAcceptanceLowsHollywoodSorryRejectionShallowNormShow BusinessAbsorbingOdditiesLetdowns Author:Joan Rivers
“The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood ... Life elsewhere was real and slippery and struggled in the arms like a big fish dying in air.” RealBigsExistenceCuttingAirDyingArmsHollywoodFishesBitesElsewhereSlipperyBig FishHollywood Life Author:Mae West
“The bite of existence did not cut into one in Hollywood.” ExistenceCuttingHollywoodBites Author:Mae West
“I've always been altering clothing my entire life. But I would have to say my first real amateur endeavor would have to be drawing, designing and then literally cutting and sewing every piece of costume for my first band I formed in Hollywood.” FirstsRealPiecesCuttingDesignBandHollywoodDrawingEndeavorClothingsCostumesSewing Author:Ashley Purdy
“I accept that appearance is a big thing in this business. But being around Hollywood and having actor friends and doing music videos, it does make you more aware of how you look. With music videos they send you rough cuts, and in certain frames of me, I just see a nose advert.” LooksDoeBigsCertainActorsAcceptingCuttingHollywoodAppearanceVideoNosesRoughBig ThingsAdverts Author:Michael Bolton
“But you know, I'm very conscious that people criticize Hollywood. Yet we've created a form, the Western, that can be understood in every country. The good guys against the bad guys. No nuances. And the horse is the best vehicle of action in our medium. You take action, a scene, and scenery, and cut them together, and you never miss.” PeopleKnowsCountryActionTogetherFormGuyCuttingMissingSceneConsciousUnderstoodHollywoodHorseWesternMediumsCriticizeVehicleBad GuysGood GuyNuanceScenery Author:John Wayne
“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.” FilmCuttingSeeingHollywoodThroatPoolBleedingSteakCheeseburger Author:Fletcher Knebel