“Being a Chicano in Hollywood, my experience is that you're not given credit for any sophistication... You're just kind of some guy that just crossed the border, you know, on the back of a truck and that's it.” KnowsKindGuyGivenHollywoodCreditBordersTruckSophistication Author:Cheech Marin
“A few of my books, over the years, have been optioned for film. The subject matter of my books, however, is not exactly conducive to Hollywood film treatment. If and when a 'big-budget' film is ever made based on one of my books, my fans and I will more than likely loathe it because it won't be true to its source. That's almost a given.” IfsYearsHas BeensMadeBookMatterBigsFilmGivenFansSubjectsSourceHollywoodBeing TrueBudgetsTreatmentSubject MatterLoatheIfs AndHollywood Films Author:Richard Laymon
“Typical horror movies of the 1930s were often given a period setting in what looked like a kind of stylized 19th century... the sense of 'elsewhen', of distance, lent to many of these movies by their settings. They exist, as it were, in a 19th century of the mind.” MindKindFilmGivenCenturyPeriodsHorrorHollywoodDistanceSettingSettingsTypical19th Century1930s Author:Andrew Tudor
“The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.” YearsGivenHollywoodCrisisPressesThanksHeartfeltMidlifeMidlife CrisisHeartfelt Thanks Author:Colin Firth
“I actually enjoy that I never really needed to be hanging out with every celebrity in Hollywood; I just go home and hang out with my cousins, my best friends. I'm not treated like royalty; they love me to death, but they don't treat me like royalty. So it's easy for me; they'll tell me the truth, whether it hurts or not. And I need that; I've always been given that.” NeedsHomeGivenEasyEnjoyHurtNeededHollywoodTreatsTreatedHanging OutIt HurtsCousinMy Best FriendRoyaltyMy CousinTell Me The Truth Author:Queen Latifah
“As I say, there's something that scares the hell out of me but it really makes me work hard in losing myself. I'm not really interested in me as an actor or being a personality player, or a Hollywood star. What's given to me is to become different people and to find the truth of that. That is really what I do.” PeopleDifferentHardActorsGivenStarsHellPlayerHard WorkPersonalityLosingHollywoodScareDifferent PeoplesLosing MyselfHollywood Stars Author:David Suchet
“The way Hollywood portrays mothers - you're either all good and saint-like, or you're all bad. And I think the real honesty of motherhood is not given a voice in movies. I miss that as an audience member.” ThinkingWayRealMotherGivenVoiceInspiringAudienceMissingHonestyMembersHollywoodSaintMotherhoodMothers Day Author:Ellen Barkin
“Television is a great job for a writer in the way that movies used to be, way before my time. Back when writers in Hollywood were on staff or under contract at any given studio and you'd write movie scripts and then the movies would get made within a few weeks, such that you could be a working writer in the movie business back in the '30s and '40s and '50s and have a hand in writing five or six movies a year that actually got produced. The only thing remotely like that in the 21st century here in Hollywood is working in the TV business.” WayWritingYearsMadeHandsJobsUsedGivenFiveWeekCenturyTelevisionTvsSixHollywoodScriptsStudiosUsed To BeMy TimeContractsStaff21st CenturyBack WhenGreat JobMovie Business Author:Vince Gilligan
“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
“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
“In 1996 or 1997, out of nowhere, Fox News comes on and it's on channel 360 on Direct TV, and out of 300 million Americans, on every single night, anywhere from 3 to 5 million watch it, we're talking about at no more than 2 percent of the American public is watching Fox at any given moment. Yet, ABC, CBS, NBC, the New York Times, the institutional left, CNN, MSNBC, the record companies, Hollywood, all seem to be committed towards aligning their minds and their money and their other resources to try to shut up Fox News.” TryingMindMomentsSeemsNightLeftGivenCompanyTalkingWatchesMillionsRecordsNew YorkTvsNewsPercentResourcesDirectHollywoodCommittedShut UpFoxesNew York TimesRecord CompaniesCnnFox NewsNbc Author:Andrew Breitbart
“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
“I have to say, Any Given Sunday was good, but it was too ambitious. You can't do everything in three hours. It went on through ownership issues, quarterback issues, the running back issues, LT issues, and all that, even the coach issues. It was too much. Whereas, Playmakers says, Yeah, you got all those problems, but my god, you're playing football, you're doing the best thing in the world. You're playing football, you're having fun, you're getting paid to play a game. Well, with all the bad things about Hollywood all the drug use, all that, it's still a pretty good life.” WorldWellsStillsPlayUseProblemRunningThreeGamesGivenFunHoursIssuesToo MuchFootballDrugHollywoodPaidYeahCoachesHaving FunBest ThingsSundayBad ThingsGood LifeAmbitiousOwnershipQuarterbackPlaying FootballDrug UseRunning Back Author:Terry Crews