“I learned Hollywood is a small community, and you really have to be a part of the community to get anything done. Unlike traditional industries, where you can do things from afar with phone calls and e-mail, this town is really about being social. Because that's how trust gets built.” DoneSocialCan DoCommunityIndustryBuiltHollywoodTownsPhonesTraditionalMailPhone CallsAfarSmall Communities Author:Jeffrey Skoll
“I come from the theater, and I've done a lot of character work in the theater, but Hollywood stuff in film and TV, they've been more leading lady/ingenue type roles.” DoneCharacterFilmStuffRolesTvsTypeHollywoodTheaterLeading Ladies Author:Sanaa Lathan
“Even though I've done Hollywood films, I still don't think of myself as a Hollywood actress.” ThinkingStillsDoneFilmHollywoodActressesHollywood Films Author:Zhang Ziyi
“The way the recession has affected Hollywood, a lot of actors that had robust opportunities before in film no longer have such plum options, so cable has done a good job of becoming a happy medium for artists deemed film actors.” WayDoneJobsFilmArtistActorsOpportunityBecomingHollywoodMediumsAffectedGood JobCablesRecessionsRobustPlumsFilm Actors Author:Omari Hardwick
“I don't get that many scripts. Back in Australia, I've pretty much done my own shows and really no work outside of that. It's only now that I'm starting to read some Hollywood film scripts, and I've read some really great ones.” DoneShowsFilmMy OwnHollywoodStartingScriptsWork OutAustraliaReally GreatGreat OnesHollywood Films Author:Jason Gann
“If I had stayed in Hollywood, I would have killed myself. Or someone would have done it for me.” IfsDoneHollywood Author:Piper Laurie
“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
“I regret the way that America has elected to make films for its bluntest section of society and in ways that flatter them, and we have to recognize how much that is being done for money. We have to find another way of measuring ourselves. And film is one of the few ways that might be done.” WayDoneMightAmericaFilmRegretHollywoodSectionsAnother WayI RegretMeasuringBeing Done Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“As much as it's nice to step into that massive world of Hollywood and be a big, famous actor, I prefer the career of actors that have really chosen smartly and done really amazing performances. Maybe they're not as known, but their careers are a bit more interesting.” WorldDoneBigsActorsBitsInterestingKnownStepsCareersNiceHollywoodPerformancesChosenMassiveReally AmazingFamous Actor Author:Idris Elba
“[On Hollywood:] I had gone there expecting to see parties that reflected the stock-in-trade of the movies - glamour. Instead, I found the same attitude toward parties that European peasants had for baths. It was something to be done methodically every Saturday night.” DoneNightFoundPartyAttitudeGoneHollywoodTradeExpectingSaturdayBathsGlamourPeasantsSaturday Night Book:I married the world Source: I married the world
“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
“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
“I had written three books [Games of Throne], at that point, and each one of them was better than the other. At a certain point, as the books were doing well, I started getting interest from Hollywood, from various producers and studios who were initially interested in doing a feature film. I met with some of those people and I had phone conversations with some of those people, but I didn't see it being done as a feature film.” PeopleWellsBookDoneFilmCertainThreeGamesInterestWrittenMetsConversationHollywoodPhonesVariousStudiosProducersFeaturesThronesBeing Done Author:George R. R. Martin
“It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.” YearsDoneStoriesSeemsAchievementHollywoodBoresCivilisationManson Author:John Hawkes
“It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.” DoneDifficultBlackHeroArgumentHollywoodHaitian Author:Jimmy Jean-Louis
“I had a great time working on the movies, both the major movies I've done. I've had a great time. I like the people in Hollywood a lot.” PeopleDoneMajorsHollywoodGreat TimesHad A Great Time Author:Al Franken
“I was bargaining for time away from Hollywood, and Columbia was bargaining for money. I got what I wanted and they got what they wanted. They knew I was so anxious to do Born Yesterday that I'd have done it for a dollar. They gave me the next best thing.” DoneWantedNextBornHollywoodDollarsYesterdayBest ThingsAnxiousColumbiaBargainingTime Away Author:Judy Holliday
“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.” MadeDoneFallStarsWrittenHollywoodScriptsRisingSuperstitionsVersusVariables Author:Jon Spaihts
“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 fact, most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working.” DoneFactsEuropeHollywoodStudiosGoing Out Author:Ciaran Hinds
“I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'” PeopleKnowsHas BeensTwoDoneActorsPathHollywoodMusicalMovieTwo Paths Author:Hugh Jackman
“What Hollywood has done through the years is glamorized it even more, made it sexy, made it sensuous, and dwelled on those pleasure aspects, completing ignoring the fact that Hollywood as an industry, was pointing the gun at young people - pointing a gun at them when they were 12 to 14 years.” PeopleYearsMadeDoneFactsYoungPleasureIndustryGunAspectHollywoodSexyMade ItPointingThrough The YearsSensuousCompleting Author:Joe Eszterhas
“I think that the work that's left to be done - and I see the end in sight at this point - is to just let go and stop talking about it. It's definitely 'stop talking about the whole size thing.' I don't go to my girlfriend's house and say, 'Hey, I'm your big friend, let's talk about big things.' It's not a topic of conversation within my friend group - I'm ready for society, Hollywood, the press, magazines, everyone, to just catch up and say, 'These women are just like the women we've been using for so long. Let's just throw them into the mix and stop talking about it.'” ThinkingLongEndsDoneWholeBigsHouseLeftTalkingGroupsReadyConversationLetting GoMy FriendsHollywoodSightPressesSizeMagazinesHeyGirlfriendTopicsBig ThingsMy GirlfriendJust Let Go Author:Ashley Graham
“Argo might well be studied as a bait-and-switch masterwork: In showing the capture of the American Embassy in Tehran, Ben Affleck first made a fetish of authenticity, then served up a shamelessly Hollywood, and wholly fictional climax, then capped the whole thing off with a coda that was essentially a tribute to his movie's authenticity, complete with side-by-side photos of the actors and their near-identical real-life counterparts. Well done, sir!” FirstsWellsMadeRealDoneWholeMightActorsSidesHollywoodReal LifeAuthenticityCaptureIdenticalTributeWell DoneBaitCounterpartsClimaxFetishTehranEmbassyArgo Author:David Edelstein
“When you think about it there's never really been a realistic exposition of Hollywood, I mean - from the inside - showing Hollywood what it can do, what it has done, to people.” PeopleThinkingMeanDoneCan DoHollywoodRealistic Author:Jessica Lange
“I think if you look at Hollywood as a whole and the type of content that they put out over the years, it's pretty homogeneous, right? They haven't done a really deep dive into a lot of stories of people of color. I don't want to say that there haven't been attempts, and there has been some great product that has come out over the years, but I think in 2016, we're in a world of struggle. It's not just about race, it's also about the LGBT community too and others.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantYearsLooksHas BeensDoneWholeStoriesCommunityRaceStruggleHavensColorProductsTypeHollywoodLgbtReally DeepHomogeneousLgbt Community Author:Mike Jackson
“I love Hollywood films and when they're done right, they're great. At the same time, I think it's always hard to come on to something that preexists.” ThinkingHardDoneFilmHollywoodHollywood Films Author:Rupert Wyatt
“Media is everything, and when you live in Los Angeles and you live in New York, it's almost impossible to run into a conservative point of view because the conservatives that exist in Hollywood, where much of the media's done, and the conservatives that live in New York where a lot of the media's done are fearful of even expressing their conservative point of view.” DoneRunningViewsImpossibleMediaNew YorkHollywoodConservativePoint Of ViewLos AngelesFearful Author:Andrew Breitbart
“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
“You can't take yourself too seriously. Like, yeah, I'm doin' all that, but still I don't feel like I've done anything, really. I feel blessed 'cause I'm doin' all these things, but I'm not satisfied. I still have that feeling like, "Who am I? Who am I to have an ego? Who am I to change up and act like some Hollywood character?" Technically, in the grand scheme of things, I haven't done anything.” FeelsStillsDoneCharacterFeelingsCausesHavensEgoHollywoodYeahBlessedSatisfiedSchemes Author:J. Cole
“I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to mid-'90s. And I was on staff at a couple of shows. I did some feature films, including originals and adaptations.” YearsDoneShowsFilmTelevisionCoupleHollywoodOriginalsIncludingFeaturesStaff80sAdaptation Author:George R. R. Martin
“Taking a year off and going to school was the best thing I could have done after 'The Princess Diaries.' It taught me that I don't need Hollywood or a job to make me happy.” NeedsYearsDoneSchoolJobsTaughtHollywoodBest ThingsPrincessDiariesMake Me HappyPrincess Diaries Author:Anne Hathaway
“In Hollywood if you're good looking, tall, have OK teeth and nice skin, the odds of being successful are great. If you're short and fat, it's a different story. But as long as you look like a leading man type, half your job is done already” IfsMenLooksLongDifferentDoneStoriesJobsHalfSuccessfulNiceTypeHollywoodSkinsTeethFatsBeing SuccessfulTallOddsBeing NiceLooking Good Author:John Corbett