“I never know what my next move will be in Hollywood. It's such an unpredictable town. People get jaded and lost and I've been able to stay a float. I think the next logical step in my career would be to start my own filmmaking empire like (Harvey Weinstein) and (Bob Weinstein) did so many years ago. I think if only the unions weren't so strict in Boston, I'd set up shop there and make films of a certain quality you don't see represented these days. I'm full of ideas and dreams.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsYearsIdeasDreamWould BeAbleFilmMovingCertainNextLostMy OwnQualityStepsCareersYears AgoHollywoodTownsUnionsThese DaysShopsEmpiresLogicalBobFilmmakingStrictUnpredictableBostonFloatsJadedHarveyNext MoveIdeas And Dreams Author:Ben Affleck
“I have seen so few films in which the sex felt really respected by the filmmaker. Hollywood too often shies away from it or makes adolescent jokes about it... Sex is only connected to the negative because people are scared of it.” PeopleFilmSexFeltJokesNegativeHollywoodScaredConnectedFilmmaker Author:John Cameron Mitchell
“I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.” ThinkingStoriesFilmPositionDeserveHollywoodObviousMainstream Author:Diablo Cody
“I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films; I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.” WantStoriesFilmCertainGoalHollywoodUltimateUltimate Goal Author:Kim Jee-woon
“The irony is I did an intimate film in France with no stars and that got me to Hollywood. It got me to the Oscars. If I had tried to imitate the Americans or the Hollywood movies with a commercial recipe, I'd never have gotten to Hollywood. Although, it was not my goal in any way, and I never thought there was any connection between Monsieur Lazhar and the Oscars.” IfsWayFilmStarsGoalConnectionsHollywoodFranceIronyIntimateOscarsRecipesHollywood Movies Author:Philippe Falardeau
“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
“The populist zeal to seek revenge on those who make a lot of money is targeted almost exclusively at corporations. I haven't heard outcries about Hollywood actors who make millions per film, even when those movies are a bust at the box office and the talent at issue has none. There's no outrage over athletes like New York Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez's $33 million salary or Celtic power forward Kevin Garnett's $25 million. Nor should there be. These are exceptionally talented individuals whose teams' owners think they're worth every penny.” ThinkingShouldFilmActorsIndividualMillionsIssuesHeardTeamTalentHavensNew YorkOfficeHollywoodThirdsAthleteBoxesRevengeCorporationsOwnersLots Of MoneyYankeesSalaryPenniesZealAlexOutrageNew York YankeesKevinBox OfficePopulistCeltic Author:Linda Chavez
“Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money.” IfsJobsFilmHollywoodBlameExperimentsMaking Money Author:Orson Welles
“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
“The script was classic Joe Eszterhas, intelligent, steamy and provocative. At one time, Eszterhas was Hollywood's highest paid writer, illiterate rock and roll bad boy whose 14 films glorified sex, drugsa nd cigarettes. Eszterhas also fought publicly with producers and politicians. In 1995 he argued that some of the misdeeds of the Nixon, Reagan and Bush administrations were more obscene than anything in an "R" rated movie.” FilmSexBoysRocksPoliticianHighestHollywoodPaidIntelligentScriptsProducersAdministrationClassicOne TimeCigaretteRock And RollProvocativeIlliterateObsceneBad BoyMisdeeds Author:David Shuster
“I heard, one of my producers told me this story where like the Hollywood studios brought all these high-end consultants in to try to figure out how to improve their process and make films more efficiently, and these consultants like studied the process for years and finally came up with this report they put together about how studios can improve the efficiency of their process, and the conclusion was "have the script ready by the time you're shooting.” TryingYearsEndsStoriesTogetherFilmProcessHeardFiguresReadyHollywoodScriptsStudiosProducersConclusionShootingReportsEfficiencyConsultantsHollywood Studios Author:Joseph Kosinski
“Heroes aren't athletes who set new sports records, or Hollywood actors who make 'daring' films or politicians who make bold promises. Heroes are people who place themselves at risk for the benefit of others.” PeopleFilmActorsSportsRecordsRiskHeroPoliticianPromiseBenefitsHollywoodAthleteDaring Author:Oliver North
“I was very young, maybe five. The opera was very... I was attracted to opera to the point that I think it's the reason I started to write music for films. I never studied. There are film and music school that teach you how to write music. I never studied that. But the influence of opera, which is a combination of storyline, visuals, staging, plus music... that was perhaps the best school I could have had. That's what gave me the idea of coming to Hollywood to write music for films.” ThinkingWritingIdeasReasonSchoolFilmYoungTeachFiveInfluenceHollywoodCombinationVisualsPlusOperaStorylineStagingBest SchoolFilm And Music Author:Lalo Schifrin
“After moving to Los Angeles in the early '90s, I started looking into "music for picture" more seriously and in broader scope. My collaboration as a programmer and arranger with Graeme Revell exposed me for the first time to the full spectrum of film music, including the hectic demands of orchestral scoring and the power politics surrounding the finalization of any score for a major motion picture in Hollywood.” FirstsFilmMovingDemandMajorsFirst TimeHollywoodIncludingScoreLos AngelesCollaborationExposedScopeSpectrumProgrammersMotion PicturesHecticPower PoliticsFilm Music Author:Paul Haslinger
“Whenever Hollywood makes films about us, it's 12 Years a Slave or The Butler or The Help. That is not the sum total of who we are as a people.” PeopleYearsHelpingFilmHollywoodSlaveWho We AreButlers Author:Mo Abudu
“You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.” WorldStoriesFilmActorsSocialActingHollywoodIndianHollywood Films Author:Amitabh Bachchan
“When they were making black films in the '60s and the '70s, everyone knew their place, if you get my drift. You understand? Everyone knew the rules, and everyone knew their place. Everyone knew what to say. They had the written rules in Hollywood film, and the unwritten rules.” IfsFilmBlackWrittenHollywoodUnwrittenHollywood FilmsUnwritten Rules Author:Paul Mooney
“I have friends who are leading men, and they're only ever allowed to play leading men of a certain type. But as a character actor, there's a wider variety of projects available. On the big Hollywood films, all they care about is having their lead in place, so it's actually easier for someone like me to slip in. And I'm happy to do so.” MenPlayCharacterBigsCareFilmCertainActorsTypeEasierProjectsHollywoodAvailableLike MeVarietySlipsLead InCharacter ActorsHollywood Films Author:Eddie Marsan
“My spirit had been broken a bit over the years by my having to work on films I didn't love. Hollywood's a surreal place, and it really is an assault on your spirit.” YearsFilmSpiritBitsBrokenHollywoodAssaultSurreal Author:Naomi Watts
“Many of us had this idea of doing independent film, of making personal, relevant films, as opposed to Hollywood fluff. I directed a few.” IdeasFilmHollywoodIndependentRelevantIndependent FilmFluff Author:Robert Kane Pappas
“The problem for independent filmmakers is that huge companies control all the promotion, all the advertising. Hollywood films' advertising budgets are as large as their shooting budgets.” ProblemFilmCompanyHugeHollywoodIndependentAdvertisingShootingBudgetsFilmmakerPromotionHollywood Films Author:Robert Kane Pappas
“The films that I go to see at the cinema are not Hollywood blockbusters particularly. I've not got anything against them... I'm in them! But I don't go and spend my money on them.” FilmHollywoodCinemaBlockbuster Author:Gemma Arterton
“I really thought Reagan was going to push the button and blow us all up. It was scary. So when they did the 1998 American Godzilla film, Hollywood didn't understand what Godzilla was.” FilmHollywoodBlowScaryButtonsGodzillaAmerican Gods Author:Brad Warner
“There were Hollywood movies and then there were those aggressively anti-narrative films that they showed at the Collective for Living Cinema.” FilmHollywoodNarrativeCinemaCollectivesHollywood Movies Author:Christine Vachon
“Hollywood is a deeply odd place. There are so many factors that have to go perfectly, so many schedules and visions that have to snap together for a film even to be made, much less be good.” MadeTogetherFilmVisionHollywoodBe GoodFactorsOddSchedulesSnaps Author:Marcus Sakey
“I never desired to really go to Hollywood and make films, and purely because I want my entire control, which I'm used to having.” WantFilmUsedHollywood Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“I liked the Hollywood stuff. But I also liked the fact that in both, you know, I guess in the, like, the auteur, the art film auteur at that time was Lina Wertmuller. So, you go see "Swept Away" or you go see a movie she did "Blood Feud" with Sophia Loren and Giancarlo Giannini. And I remember "Wifemistress" was a big movie at that time, really liked it, Laura Antonelli.” KnowsArtFactsBigsRememberFilmStuffBloodHollywoodSwept AwayBig MovieLauraSophiaFeudsArt FilmsAuteurs Author:Quentin Tarantino
“I very much enjoy my freedom creatively but I also would love to make one of those big Hollywood films that costs a lot of money and has a lot of people running around with cell phones and all that insanity.” PeopleBigsRunningFilmEnjoyCostHollywoodPhonesCellsInsanityLots Of MoneyCell PhoneHollywood Films Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“There was a period that black film had no chance of making it in Hollywood. So, people just made the made the statements that they wanted to make. Whether it was a science fiction film or whatever, b/c they were just making movie for themselves. Then there was a period where people were creating projects as their Hollywood audition 'pieces'. I feel that today we are moving back to the era where we all have our own voices.” PeopleFeelsMadeTodayWantedFilmMovingBlackVoiceChanceFictionPiecesPeriodsProjectsCreatingHollywoodScience FictionStatementsErasAuditionsMoving Back Author:Reginald Hudlin
“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
“There are [in Hollywood] some endemic problems and some things that happen over and over again. There's the problem of representation of basically anybody but white men. These are things that we talk about a lot in contemporary culture, and it's interesting to me to go look at film history from the perspective of today.” MenLooksProblemHappensTodayFilmCultureWhiteInterestingPerspectiveHollywoodContemporaryRepresentationWhite ManFilm History Author:Karina Longworth
“I think Brad [Furman] crafted an amazing film [The Infiltrator]. It's so complex, it's incredibly thrilling, incredibly touching and it's what people have been trying to do for years in Hollywood, is to try to capture what it's like to be undercover, what is that duality of life? And I think that Brad really caught that.” PeopleThinkingTryingYearsHas BeensFilmHollywoodComplexesCaughtTouchingCaptureThrillingDualityBradUndercover Author:John Leguizamo
“I don't understand the whole concept of doubles. They used to do that in the early sound films in Hollywood, but I thought we had gotten rid of that. Now not only do you have doubles, but as in Flashdance, you have triples, quadruples. From my point of view it is bad for the art.” ArtWholeFilmUsedSoundViewsConceptsHollywoodPoint Of View Author:Gene Kelly
“I think Hollywood... well, there is no Hollywood anymore so let's just call it the mainstream since the business is no longer Hollywood producing its own films and then distributing, they just distribute.” ThinkingWellsFilmHollywoodMainstream Author:Robert Redford
“I did a movie with Woody Allen [“Hollywood Ending” in 2002]. I only had a few days with Treat on that film. I immediately liked Treat. Treat and I had a sense of humor about the whole thing.” WholeFilmHollywoodTreatsSense Of HumorWoody Author:George Hamilton
“Because I didn't go to film school, I had a collection of books that were inspiring or taught me how to make movies, shorts with my friends back in Brooklyn, and one of those books was How I Made a Hundred Movies in Hollywood and Never Lost a Dime which is Roger's autobiography. After reading that, I realized that oh my God, this guy is behind all my favorite Pam Grier movies. Oh my God, he made the Vincent Price Poe films that ran on television when I was little. He did Grand Theft Auto. He made Death Race 2000.” LittlesMadeBookSchoolFilmGuyReadingLostRaceBehindsTelevisionTaughtHundredMy FriendsHollywoodMy FavoriteI RealizedRanCollectionsAutobiographyThis GuyTheftBrooklynRogerDimesShortsFilm SchoolDeath RaceGrand Theft Auto Author:Alex Stapleton
“If you take a movie like Easy Rider which everyone counts as the beginning of New Hollywood, that is a big movement. And then, when you really dissect that film and the people that were behind that movie, you realize that it has Roger Corman written all over it. Easy Rider is a hybrid film, taking The Trip and The Wild Angels and making a new explosion. And the people that were making it, guess what, they were all [people who had worked with Roger Corman].” PeopleIfsBigsFilmEasyRealizingBehindsWrittenMovementAngelHollywoodOver ItExplosionsRogerRidersHybridEasy Rider Author:Alex Stapleton
“I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".” FilmSawsCreaturesHollywoodTeenager Author:Nan Goldin
“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
“I couldn't get a job acting all the time and there were down periods where I could take photographs or paint. I got into a lot of trouble when I was young, from making two films with James Dean, watching him work and then him dying and thinking I could turn down work. There was a big difference, he was a star and I wasn't. So I got in a lot of trouble and was essentially banned from Hollywood.” ThinkingTwoBigsJobsFilmYoungTurnsStarsDifferencesActingTroubleDyingPeriodsHollywoodPaintPhotographDeanBanned Author:Dennis Hopper
“We thought by setting the film ["Selling Isobel"] in the cloak of... let's call it an indie-Hollywood thriller, it would appeal to a wider range of young women who would see this cautionary tale and say, "Hang on, I've got to think twice about what I get myself into."” ThinkingFilmYoungHollywoodSettingTalesSellingSettingsAppealsRangeYoung WomenThrillersCloaksThink TwiceCautionary Tales Author:Rudolf Buitendach
“I grew up with a lot of Hollywood films. Cozy farm houses, cowboys, nice flats in New York. Especially as a kid, those things have a huge impression on you.” KidsFilmHouseNiceNew YorkHugeGrewGrew UpHollywoodImpressionFlatsFarmsCowboyCozyHollywood Films Author:Andrea Arnold
“These 150-minute superhero films that Hollywood is making are so concerned with their length that each scene doesn't have the time it needs to make sense.” NeedsFilmMinutesSceneConcernedHollywoodMake SenseLengthSuperhero Author:Sonia Braga
“I think my music is great for film, but I don't have the opportunity, or goesche to go and pitch myself to Hollywood.” ThinkingFilmOpportunityMusic IsHollywood Author:Terry Bozzio
“I truly believe that all power corrupts. Such is probably the thinking behind every political film ever made in Hollywood.” ThinkingBelieveMadeFilmPoliticalBehindsHollywoodPower Corrupts Author:Elia Kazan
“It felt [at the Allied set] like, "At last, I'm in Hollywood," even though I was in West London. It was like, "This is how a film should be made." It was beautiful.” ShouldMadeLastsBeautifulFilmFeltHollywoodWestLondonMade It Author:Steven Knight
“For me, it was watching 'Reds' and 'Splendor in the Grass.' To me, 'Splendor' is like the companion piece to 'Rules Don't Apply.' It's set in the time when Warren [Beatty] came to Hollywood, and when he did that first film.” FirstsFilmPiecesHollywoodGrassCompanionSplendorBeatty Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“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
“From a young age, [James Baldwin] was watching all those different films. He's watching John Wayne killing off the Indians. He came to the point that the Indians were him. You had to educate yourself because the movies were not educating you. The movies were giving you a reflection of you that was not the truth. That's the trick. The movie was also giving a reflection of what the country is. Basically, a country that wanted itself to be innocent. That's the ambivalence of Hollywood.” GivingDifferentCountryAgeWantedFilmYoungReflectionHollywoodKillingTricksInnocentEducateYoung AgeWayneAmbivalence Author:Raoul Peck
“I hope I can make some Hollywood-type action films like 'Batman' or 'Spiderman', action films like that. With some wire work, maybe wearing a mask. Like that.” I CanActionFilmTypeHollywoodMaskWireAction FilmsWearing A Mask Author:Jackie Chan