“Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes.” IfsKnowsFirstsI CanAsksDirectorsHollywoodAsk MeTarantinoHollywood Movies Author:Melanie Laurent
“There's a whole system in Hollywood where the director never speaks to the studio, but I like to engage them in a discussion. I listen.” WholeSpeakDirectorsHollywoodStudiosDiscussion Author:Baz Luhrmann
“I studied cinema at the university so I had a very classical approach to it. I studied all those silent films, and then the films from the 1940's, the Nouvelle Vague, the late Hollywood films. Now I realize, as a young actor, that it's one of my duties to actually be aware of what is today's industry and today's next big directors.” BigsTodayFilmYoungNextActorsRealizingDutyIndustryDirectorsLateApproachHollywoodSilentUniversityCinemaVagueYoung ActorsHollywood FilmsSilent Films Author:Gaspard Ulliel
“The people who've done well within the [Hollywood] system are the people whose instincts, whose desires [are in natural alignement with those of the producers] - who want to make the kind of movies that producers want to produce. People who don't succeed - people who've had long, bad times; like [Jean] Renoir, for example, who I think was the best director, ever - are the people who didn't want to make the kind of pictures that producers want to make. Producers didn't want to make a Renoir picture, even if it was a success.” PeopleIfsThinkingWantWellsKindLongDoneDesireNaturalExampleProduceSucceedDirectorsHollywoodInstinctProducersBad TimesRenoir Author:Orson Welles
“When I was a Hollywood press agent, I learned how the Hollywood casting system worked. There was a roster of actors who were always perfect as doctors or lawyers or laborers, and the directors just picked the types they needed and stuffed them into film after film. I do the same [with my characters], book after book.” BookCharacterFilmActorsPerfectTypeNeededDirectorsDoctorsHollywoodPressesLawyerAgentsCastingLaborersRosters Author:Richard Condon
“Unfortunately, in Hollywood, there are those directors that have some contempt for actors. We've all experienced that, in one way or another.” WayActorsDirectorsHollywoodOne WayContempt Author:Vin Diesel
“The job of the director is to suggest two plus two. Let the viewer say four.” TwoJobsFilmFourDirectorsHollywoodPlusViewers Author:Ernst Lubitsch
“Id be lying if I said Hollywood wasnt still an ambition; its everyones, isnt it? Youre getting paid very well, youre working with great actors and great directors - who wouldnt want to be a part of that? But its not going to break my heart if it doesnt happen. This business is about doing good work rather than how famous it makes you.” IfsWantWellsHeartSaidStillsHappensLyingActorsBreakMy HeartDirectorsAmbitionHollywoodPaidGood WorkDoing GoodGreat ActorsBreaking My Heart Author:Max Beesley
“Why did Erich von Stronheim leave Germany? Why did Hitchcock leave England? If you were a director you'd like to work in Hollywood too. Now go ahead and ask me if I'm still Polish. You people keep asking me this question. You want Polish artists to make it in the world, but when they do, you accuse them of treason.” PeopleIfsWorldWantStillsArtistAsksDirectorsHollywoodEnglandAskingAsk MeGermanyPolishTreasonHitchcock Author:Roman Polanski
“I always enjoy working with an international crew and director. But on the set of a Hollywood action film - now that's a whole other world. The sheer grand scale of the way things are done over there makes me envious; it's just so different from the way things are done in Japan.” WorldWayDifferentDoneWholeActionFilmEnjoyDirectorsHollywoodInternationalScalesJapanSheerCrewOther WorldsEnviousAction Films Author:Tadanobu Asano
“In looking at Hollywood and its structure, the director controls the medium, and I want to be in control of certain things. I want to be able to get my own ideas and my own feelings out there, and the only way to do that is to be behind the camera.” WayWantIdeasFeelingsAbleCertainMy OwnBehindsDirectorsHollywoodCamerasStructureMediums Author:Jamie Foxx
“Hollywood people don't want to be embarrassed by being involved with someone who isn't happening and cool at the time. But I never made the movies for the critics; I've done the best I could with the material and the directors and the actors I had. But the thing that's really exciting is that once I do that one project that's different, that stands out, everyone's gonna be watching.” PeopleWantMadeDifferentDoneActorsMaterialsInvolvedDirectorsProjectsHappeningsHollywoodExcitingCriticsEmbarrassedStanding Out Author:Pauly Shore
“It was a pity that movies and live TV left New York for Hollywood. London theater, movies, television - until (Britain's) money ran out - were always better than ours since the city was the political capital of the country, as well as the artistic and literary one. In L.A. we've always been slightly sealed off from real life. It's no accident that two of our most interesting directors, Woody Allen and Bob Altman, are more or less settled in the real world.” WorldWellsTwoRealCountryPoliticalLeftInterestingCitiesNew YorkTelevisionTvsDirectorsHollywoodTheaterAccidentsLondonReal LifePityArtisticRanBritainReal WorldBobMost InterestingWoodyLive Tv Author:Gore Vidal
“I've been inspired by films since I started dancing, and I'm married to a filmmaker, and I think it was one of my secret desires, but I was afraid to just say, 'I want to be a director'. But then one day I said, O.K., stop dreaming and do it. But I didn't want to do it the Hollywood way, and talk through agents. I decided it all had to be generated by me, so I wrote it.” ThinkingWayWantSaidDreamFilmDesireSecretOne DayDirectorsMarriedDecidedHollywoodDancingInspiredAgentsFilmmakerStop DreamingSecret Desire Author:Madonna Ciccone
“Hollywood needs more women directors, and Mama Ava needs a carafe and a half of that sweet vino divino.” NeedsHalfSweetDirectorsHollywoodMamaVino Author:Ava DuVernay
“The action star's life is very short. Back in Asia, I can do whatever I want to do. I'm the producer, I'm the director, I can do so many things, but in Hollywood any time I present a script they say: "No, no, no, Rush Hour 3, Rush Hour 4."” WantI CanActionLife IsStarsCan DoHoursDirectorsHollywoodScriptsProducersAsiaRush Hour Author:Jackie Chan
“I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when i first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.” FirstsTermRolesWorstDirectorsHollywoodEndureDiscriminationProducersMexicanRacial DiscriminationWorst Times Author:Salma Hayek
“Because of 'The Birds' and 'Marnie' I was, as the expression goes, hot in Hollywood and producers and directors wanted to hire me.” WantedExpressionDirectorsBirdHollywoodHotProducers Author:Tippi Hedren
“The turning point in my career was Jaws. It was a turning point because I was a director-for-hire before Jaws and because it was such a big hit I could do any movie I wanted and Hollywood just wrote me a cheque.” BigsWantedCareersDirectorsHollywoodTurning PointsCheques Author:Steven Spielberg
“There's nothing really original. Alien was a B-movie. Five directors passed on it before me. Because I was into Heavy Metal, I read it, and thought, "Wow, I want to do this." I was on a plane to Hollywood in 22 hours. It was a B-movie and was elevated to an A-plus movie by sheer good taste.” WantHoursFiveTasteDirectorsHollywoodOriginalsHeavyAliensPlanesPlusWowMetalsSheerGood TasteHeavy Metal Author:Ridley Scott
“Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make movies have such glamour associated with them. But the truth is, it's not like that. It's very different. It's hard work.” PeopleDifferentHardFilmFantasyHard WorkTruth IsDirectorsHollywoodGlamour Author:John Carpenter
“If you are a star in Hollywood then you are always a star in your eyes, but not always in the eyes of new directors for whom your great performances are always fading into the past.” IfsEyePastStarsDirectorsHollywoodPerformancesFadingGreat Performance Author:Lee Grant
“You hear again and again that audiences want to see movies that are different and critics say we [directors] make the same thing again and again in Hollywood, then you go and make something different and you get kicked in the gut for it.” WantDifferentAudienceDirectorsHollywoodCriticsGutsAgain And Again Author:David Ayer
“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.” ThinkingYearsAgeFilmGonePathTerribleDirectorsHollywoodCinema Author:Woody Allen
“I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.” RealizingAttentionDirectorsHollywoodIndependentFilmmakerSensibilityContradictoryAttention SpanShort Attention Spans Author:Doug Liman
“The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.” MadeProblemFilmDirectorsHollywood Author:Mike Leigh
“It never occurred to me to be a film director, partly because I hadn't seen a single film by a female director, but I liked the idea of being a writer moving to Hollywood and being unhappy; that sounded romantic and fabulous to me.” IdeasFilmMovingDirectorsFemaleHollywoodUnhappyFabulousFilm DirectorsBeing Unhappy Author:Mary Harron
“The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles.” TryingDifferentChanceStyleTvsDirectorsHollywoodStudiosGenreDifferent StylesDifferent GenresOld Hollywood Author:Mary Harron
“Every actor. every director, everybody needs an Oscar. You have to have that little statue in Hollywood or else you are nothing.” NeedsLittlesActorsDirectorsHollywoodOscarsStatues Author:Rita Hayworth
“I'm not a Hollywood director. I'm an in spite of Hollywood director.” DirectorsHollywoodSpite Author:Martin Scorsese
“I just saw Titanic, which is a $200 million film about a real-life disaster at sea, but according to Hollywood Logic, none of the actual passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.” GivingRealEnoughSeemsFilmBitsInterestingMillionsSawsSeaStyleCoupleDirectorsLogicHollywoodTinyDisasterReal LifeHeatFrankCatastrophePassengersJulietPerksAtticsWacky Author:Paul Rudnick
“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.” FirstsJobsGivenIndustryDirectorsFirst TimeHollywoodPaidReputationFilmmakerComing OutVeteranSundance Author:Lynn Shelton
“I have always firmly believed that every director should be judged solely by their work, and not by their work based on their gender. Hollywood is supposedly a community of forward thinking and progressive people yet this horrific situation for women directors persists. Gender discrimination stigmatizes our entire industry. Change is essential. Gender neutral hiring is essential.” PeopleThinkingShouldCommunitySituationIndustryDirectorsEssentialsHollywoodGenderDiscriminationProgressiveJudgedPersistHiringHorrificForward ThinkingGender GapGender Discrimination Author:Kathryn Bigelow
“It has never ever been a bad thing in Hollywood to be sleeping with a director who's just won an Oscar or the hot new movie star whose face is on the cover of 'Time' magazine.” FacesStarsSleepDirectorsHollywoodHotMagazinesBad ThingsOscarsMovie StarTime Magazine Author:Kelly Rutherford
“The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine.” LongHas BeensActorsImagineDirectorsHollywoodTownsStudiosRadicalAgendasBossLeftistsPeg Author:Paul Haggis
“I was really fortunate from the time I arrived in Hollywood to work with some of the greatest directors from the beginning. I worked with Robert Altman, John Boorman, and of course Steven Spielberg, Michael Cimino, Brian De Palma ... I couldn't pick one of them; they were all different, but they are all so talented.” DifferentCoursesDirectorsPicksHollywoodFortunateBrian Author:Vilmos Zsigmond
“The only way that Hollywood ever skews toward liberal is because part of what we make out of Hollywood involves writers, actors, directors, musicians, set designers, and photographers. In general, people like that are going to be more progressive, more open minded, a little more altruistic.” PeopleWayLittlesActorsDirectorsMusicianHollywoodPhotographerDesignerProgressiveOpen MindOpen MindedMake Out Author:Adam McKay
“A lot of new American directors have had mentors who have given them advice. And some of them have had the way paved for them by huge Hollywood directors who saw a younger version of themselves.” WayGivenSawsAdviceHugeDirectorsHollywoodVersionsMentor Author:Julie Delpy
“I've never had help from anyone, ever. I've never had this great director who saw themselves in me, because I'm a French woman in Hollywood. Who could identify with me as a successful director in Hollywood? Nobody. And the few people who could have been mentors, instead they just stole my ideas.” PeopleHas BeensIdeasHelpingSuccessfulSawsDirectorsHollywoodMentorCould Have BeenFrench Woman Author:Julie Delpy
“I've had a real lucky time working in Hollywood. I've talked to other screenwriters, and they're all kind of beaten down and their spirits are crushed, because they work on these screenplays and these projects, and then directors either take them and change everything, rewrite them and make them worse, or they film them and they're nothing like how they imagined it to be.” KindRealFilmSpiritLuckyDirectorsProjectsHollywoodDown AndAll KindsBeatenCrushedScreenplaysScreenwriters Author:Daniel Clowes
“I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.” ThinkingJobsDecisionSupportWonderfulDirectorsFemaleHollywoodPressurePressesMakersDecision Makers Author:Natalie Portman
“According to Hollywood logic, none of the actual Titanic passengers was interesting enough, so the writer-director had to invent a Romeo and Juliet-style fictional couple to heat up the catastrophe. This seems a tiny bit like giving Anne Frank a wacky best friend, to perk up that attic.” GivingEnoughSeemsBitsInterestingStyleCoupleDirectorsLogicHollywoodTinyHeatFrankCatastrophePassengersJulietPerksAtticsWacky Author:Paul Rudnick
“I read that Hollywood wanted to film Fences years ago with a white director, but [August] Wilson refused. He thought that the director needed to have lived the culture of black Americans.” YearsWantedFilmCultureBlackWhiteNeededDirectorsYears AgoHollywoodFenceAugustWilson Author:Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
“We haven't done enough work to encourage minorities to strive to make movies. Hollywood is a place full of white male directors - there are many good ones. We just haven't nurtured our voices.” DoneEnoughVoiceWhiteHavensDirectorsHollywoodStriveMalesMinorities Author:Jordan Peele
“Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning martial arts from us. But about a decade ago, Hollywood began bringing in a number of our action choreographers, including two from my own stunt crew, where they became martial arts directors. Now, a decade later, Hollywood has learned it all, so when you look at the action films they're making now, they all use our action, our martial arts, and then add to that their own technology which is ten times better than ours, and it has to leave us dumbfounded: how did they film that?” PeopleLooksKindArtTwoUseActionFilmMy OwnNumbersTechnologyDirectorsTenHollywoodAddIncludingDecadesErasMartial ArtsCrewOur ActionsFrenzyChoreographersKung FuAction FilmsArt Director Author:Jackie Chan
“I seemed to belong to three countries: I had an apartment in Paris, a house in Hollywood, and when I married British theater director Peter Hall, I moved to London.” CountryThreeHouseDirectorsMarriedHollywoodTheaterMovedBritishLondonParisHallsPeterApartment Author:Leslie Caron
“I really hope someday in Hollywood, some producer or director will hire me only to do drama.” DramaDirectorsHollywoodProducersSomeday Author:Jackie Chan
“One nice thing about being a woman in Hollywood is that the women tend to be very close-knit. All of us writers and directors know each other and cling to each other for safety and support, and it's really a completely different vibe than the men experience out here, where they're all trying to murder each other.” KnowsMenTryingDifferentSupportNiceDirectorsHollywoodMurderSafetyBeing A WomanNice Things Author:Diablo Cody
“The only person who has artistic control is the director, and 'director' is how you spell God in Hollywood.” PersonsDirectorsHollywoodArtisticMemorableSpells Author:Tom Clancy
“When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked for every studio in Hollywood, for almost every director with most of the actors and actresses.” ActorsDirectorsHollywoodStudiosActressesMagazinesOne TimeGave UpActors And Actresses Author:David Sharp