“The great thing about it is, in Hollywood, certain people are very good at keeping their lives and who they are very private. I've never met anybody as down to earth and cool in Hollywood than Matt Damon.” PeopleEarthCertainMetsHollywoodVery GoodGreat ThingsDown To EarthDamon Author:Anthony Mackie
“I've met big-name actors doing Hollywood films, and they've said that all they want is an in at HBO and their own show.” WantSaidShowsBigsFilmActorsNamesMetsHollywoodHboHollywood Films Author:Chris Lilley
“Ah, Marilyn, Hollywood's Joan of Arc, our Ultimate Sacrificial Lamb. Well, let me tell you, she was mean, terribly mean. The meanest woman I have ever known in this town. I am appalled by this Marilyn Monroe cult. Perhaps it's getting to be an act of courage to say the truth about her. Well, let me be courageous. I have never met anyone as utterly mean as Marilyn Monroe. Nor as utterly fabulous on the screen, and that includes Garbo.” WellsMeanKnownMetsHollywoodUltimateLet MeTownsScreensCourageousCultFabulousLambsArcsBe CourageousActs Of CourageGarbo Author:Billy Wilder
“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
“I went into Hollywood and met Mike Aarons and went to Grantray-Lawrence Animation to work on the, by today's standards, extremely cheap and crude Marvel superheroes cartoons which basically consisted of taking stacks of the comic book art, taking parts of the art, pasting it down, extending it down into drawings and occasionally a new piece of art to bridge the comic book panels and limited animation and lip movement.” ArtBookTodayPiecesMovementMetsStandardsHollywoodLipsDrawingComicBridgesComic BookCartoonSuperheroAnimationMikeCrudeExtending Author:Mike Royer
“Steve Jobs is perhaps the most competitive human being I have ever met in my life, and yet I would argue one of the most artistic human beings I have ever met in my life. You can trash the movies all you want, but they do have an artistic component. And yet brutal competition knows no peers when it comes to Hollywood.” KnowsWantHumansJobsHuman BeingsBusinessMetsHollywoodCompetitionArguingArtisticBrutalPeersComponentsTrash Author:Tom Peters
“I met Jon Lovett, who was just coming off of three years of being a presidential speech writer and had just arrived here to be a comedy writer in Hollywood. I thought he was super green, in terms of this world, but he knows so much about the world that we're attempting to write about.” KnowsWorldWritingYearsThreeTermComedyThis WorldMetsSpeechHollywoodGreenPresidentialThree YearsAttempting Author:Josh Gad
“I always wanted to make motion pictures, ever since I was a wee boy, and I was 32, and time was marching on. I met a guy who said, 'Come out to Hollywood for 10 days, and I'll get you a deal.' So I figured, 'OK, 10 days.' On the 10th day, he got me a development deal with Disney, not for a lot of money, but it allowed me to make the move.” SaidWantedMovingGuyDealsBoysDevelopmentMetsHollywoodLots Of MoneyMotion PicturesMarching On Author:Craig Ferguson
“I was never ambitious. I just wanted to have quiet, calm, listen to public radio and say, hello, how are you? Sit down, rest. But I had an early partner named Fred Freeman, a wonderful writer who I met at Northwestern. And I thought we were doing very well with "Jack Paar," and he said, no, we got to go to Hollywood. We got to write sitcom. It's the coming thing.” WritingWellsSaidWantedWonderfulMetsQuietHollywoodCalmRadioPartnersAmbitiousHelloSitcomFreemanNorthwesternPublic Radio Author:Garry Marshall
“You read these stories of people who were in Hollywood in the late '60s. After they found out about the murders, everybody was like, "Have you met [Charles] Manson? Have you been to that ranch?" In some way, everybody felt connected, but what was it like for people who really were connected.” PeopleWayStoriesFoundFeltMetsLateHollywoodMurderConnectedManson Author:Karina Longworth
“It's rare to be treated like a friend you haven't met in a Hollywood meeting.” HavensMetsHollywoodMeetingsTreated Author:David Ogden Stiers