“Dark, subtle, complex, wicked - if only Hollywood movies were half as interesting as Hollywood accounting.” IfsFilmDarkInterestingHalfHollywoodComplexesWickedSubtleAccountingHollywood Movies Author:Stephen Metcalf
“Louis B. Mayer is one of those with a claim to posessing the equation... he began to buy up nickelodeon arcades in the years before the First World War in and around Boston. He had noticed that people liked going into the dark to see the light... the appeal of the movies is beyond the sensible, rational or the hard-working. Going into the dark, afte centuries of progress in which mankind has staggered toward artificial light, smacks of delicious perversity.” PeopleWorldYearsFirstsWarHardLightFilmDarkProgressMankindCenturyHard WorkHollywoodClaimsRationalAppealsWar Of The WorldsSensibleArtificialWorld War IDeliciousEquationsBostonSmackFirst World WarPerversityArcadesMayerNickelodeonArtificial Light Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“I think there's a dishonorable tradition in Hollywood to give the idea, particularly to children, that evil characters are dark.” ThinkingGivingChildrenIdeasCharacterEvilDarkTraditionHollywoodDishonorableEvil Characters Author:Tilda Swinton
“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.” ThinkingDoneFilmDarkAudienceFourPeriodsShotsHollywoodMeant To BeGoing To Work Author:Joseph M. Kahn
“In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly. So, yes, divorce is talked about a lot, but it's so much more fun to be able to spin it with dark humour, rather than talk about real people's divorces.” PeopleIfsWorldRealAbleFunDarkHumourDrinkHollywoodDivorceAround The World Author:Catherine Zeta-Jones
“I was coming from a very cerebral, dark, difficult, layered play by Christopher Hampton and doing an action movie in Hollywood (Die Hard) with explosions, and I was holding a gun.” HardPlayActionDiesDifficultDarkGunHollywoodExplosionsAction MovieCerebralHamptons Author:Alan Rickman
“I make videos which are works of art in themselves which have nothing to do with Hollywood movies or anything along those lines and I like videos because they deal with light and dark and time and change and they're just another kind of medium that I can get into and work with when I choose to other than, say, doing something on the wall or a window.” KindArtI CanLightLinesDarkDealsWallWindowHollywoodVideoMediumsWorks Of ArtLight And DarkHollywood MoviesTime And Change Author:Robert Barry
“Playing what Hollywood determines is a hero, it immediately sets actors up to feel like they just can't explore the dark parts of themselves - the character has to be likeable, has to be fuckable, has to be redemptive on all fronts. When you're playing a character that's just inherently destructive or messed up, you're given this beautiful permission to try things. There's a license to fail.” FeelsTryingCharacterBeautifulActorsGivenDarkFailingFrontsHeroHollywoodDetermineDestructivePermissionLicenseMessed UpLikeable Author:Jordan Gavaris
“He had fangs. So what? Plenty of things not a Dark-Hunter have fangs, including Hollywood actors and kids playing vampire. You should have checked his membership card before you attacked. Good grief, what if you’d run across a Masquerade group?” – Sundown” IfsShouldRunningKidsActorsDarkGriefGroupsShould HaveHollywoodIncludingCardsVampirePlentyWhat IfHuntersFangsMembershipMasqueradeDark HunterKids Playing Book:Retribution Source: Retribution
“People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them.” PeopleCharacterAmericaMovingDarkRoomsWatchesAdventureHollywoodPassivityDark RoomMenagerie Book:The Glass Menagerie Source: The Glass Menagerie