“If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do ; try to be shocking and dirty.” PeopleIfsTryingLooksMillionsComedyHollywoodDollarsDirtyShockShockingMillion Dollars Author:John Waters
“The traditions of Hollywood are grand and great and are going to survive forever, in a way. But they're not going to be the only way for much longer. The technology is such now that you don't have to have millions of dollars to make a movie. You can make one with a computer.” WayMillionsTechnologyForeverComputerTraditionHollywoodDollars Author:Joseph Gordon-Levitt
“For better or worse, we are the Court of Appeals for the Hollywood Circuit. Millions of people toil in the shadow of the law we make, and much of their livelihood is made possible by the existence of intellectual property rights. But much of their livelihood - and much of the vibrancy of our culture - also depends on the existence of other intangible rights: The right to draw ideas from a rich and varied public domain, and the right to mock, for profit as well as fun, the cultural icons of our time.” PeopleWellsMadeIdeasLawCultureFunExistenceMillionsRichRightsDependsIntellectualDrawsShadowHollywoodCourtPropertyProfitAppealsOur TimeToilDomainIconsMockProperty RightsCircuitsLivelihoodIntangibleIntellectual PropertyVibrancyPublic Domain Author:Alex Kozinski
“Do you know anything at all that nobody else knows or, for that matter, gives a damn about? If you do, then sit tight, because one of these days you're going to Hollywood as a technical supervisor on a million dollar movie.” IfsKnowsGivingMatterFunnyMillionsHollywoodDollarsThese DaysCaliforniaDamnDo You KnowMillion DollarsSupervisors Author:S. J. Perelman
“Popular culture as a whole is popular, but in today's fragmented market it's a jostle of competing unpopular popular cultures. As the critic Stanley Crouch likes to say, if you make a movie and 10 million people go see it, you'll gross $100 million - and 96 per cent of the population won't have to be involved. That alone should caution anyone about reading too much into individual examples of popular culture.” PeopleIfsShouldWholeTodayFilmCultureReadingIndividualMillionsToo MuchExampleInvolvedHollywoodCriticsPopulationLikesCentsCompetingGrossCautionPopular CultureStanleyFragmented Author:Mark Steyn
“Two weeks ago we couldn't pronounce your name, but you were in the lead in a film that made millions, so we're sending you all these scripts.” MadeTwoFilmNamesMillionsWeekHollywoodScriptsTwo WeeksLead In Author:Cillian Murphy
“Now while the German money is over for Hollywood, I still have $80 million to make movies, and we will have two things coming up: less major movies and the price for actors will go down.” StillsTwoActorsMillionsMajorsHollywoodTwo Things Author:Uwe Boll
“Why is Dave Chappelle going to Africa? Why does Mariah Carey make a hundred-million dollar deal and take her clothes off on TRL? A weak person can not get here and talk to you. Ain't no weak people talking to you. So what is happening in Hollywood? Nobody knows! The worst thing to call somebody is crazy. It's dismissive. I don't understand this person, so they're crazy. That's bullshit. These people are not crazy, they're strong people. Maybe the environment is a little sick.” PeopleKnowsLittlesPersonsDoeStrongDealsTalkingMillionsEnvironmentCrazyWorstClothesHappeningsHundredWeakHollywoodSickDollarsBullshitWorst ThingsCan NotMillion DollarsNobody KnowsDavePeople TalkingStrong PeopleWeak People Author:Dave Chappelle
“Hollywood is ten million dollars worth of intricate and high ingenious machinery functioning elaborately to put skin on baloney.” MillionsTenHollywoodSkinsDollarsMachineryMillion DollarsIntricateIngeniousBaloney Author:George Jean Nathan
“If you purposefully look to shock people, it isn't funny. That's what 50 million dollar Hollywood comedies do; try to be shocking and dirty. They aren't really. It isn't enough to shock. It's easy to shock. Real surprise is what I'm after. Those early movies, we had drugs, which you weren't supposed to show. You weren't supposed to shoot up. We would make fun of hippies. I think that we were punk before there was punk.” PeopleIfsThinkingTryingLooksRealEnoughShowsFunEasyMillionsComedyDrugHollywoodDollarsSurpriseDirtyShockPunkShockingHippieMillion Dollars Author:John Waters
“The saddest and strangest part of Hollywood to me is the fact that millions of dollars are spent on developing works that never get made. It doesn't make any sense to me. I don't understand it.” MadeFactsMillionsHollywoodDollarsMade ItDevelopingSaddest Author:Jennifer Westfeldt
“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 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
“You want to track Hollywood careers, look in the real estate section. You see a guy buy a house that costs $6 million, and you can literally start counting the days until he starts doing crappy movies.” WantLooksRealGuyHouseCareersMillionsCostHollywoodTrackEstatesSectionsCounting Author:Chris Rock
“I was living under a desk in West Hollywood. It was a closet that I shared with another comic. I was shocked when they called me to come in to try out for the show. The chances of me getting on a TV show and winning it is like one-in-a-million. I had only been doing comedy for six years at that point, so I was basically considered an open mic-er or maybe a feature act once in awhile.” TryingYearsShowsWinningChanceMillionsComedyTvsSixHollywoodWestComicFeaturesDesksTv ShowsClosetsShockedMicsOne In A MillionWest Hollywood Author:Dat Phan
“With the pay gap in Hollywood, I think it's very easy to say - 'oh, what are they complaining for? They're making millions of dollars.' But by having a woman in the industry do this, it's easier for others to see it.” ThinkingEasyPayMillionsIndustryEasierHollywoodDollarsComplainingGapsPay Gap Author:Debby Ryan
“Hollywood liberals could not be reached for comment on the cost of the inauguration because they were being fitted for gowns and jewelry worth millions of dollars in anticipation of Oscar night.” NightMillionsCostHollywoodDollarsCommentAnticipationOscarsJewelryGownsInauguration Author:Ann Coulter
“I'm extremely proud of what I have achieved. I've travelled around the world twice, went from rolling quarters for cigarettes, balling my eyes out, wondering what I was going to do after losing three million dollars, to being very financially comfortable, to buying a Mercedes G Wagon to being able to get whatever I want and living in a beautiful apartment in West Hollywood, furnished exactly how I want it. Life is incredible.” WorldWantEyeAbleBeautifulLife IsThreeWonderMillionsProudComfortableLosingHollywoodDollarsWestIncrediblesAround The WorldBuyingQuartersCigaretteApartmentRollingMillion DollarsWagonsWest Hollywood Author:Shane Bunting
“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
“No matter what's offered to me, I would never in a million years be the big headed Hollywood type.” YearsMatterBigsMillionsTypeHollywoodNo Matter What Author:Dwight Henry
“A lot of kids think they can just go to Hollywood and become an actor or actress. It's not that easy. There are millions of kids who come out here wanting to act. So, you have to have a plan, and you have to stick with that plan, because it's not going to be easy by any means.” ThinkingMeanKidsActorsEasyMillionsPlansHollywoodSticksActresses Author:Michael Clarke Duncan
“I'm very pessimistic about that, no matter how hard we may try. The Chinese market is huge, but out of last year's $2 billion box office, $1.8 billion was taken in by foreign movies, and just $200 million by our own movies, no matter how much we have learned of their techniques, or their good practices. The Hollywood movies imported into China are all good movies; does the U.S. make lousy movies? Yes, too many lousy movies, but the imports are good films, so how can they not be box office hits? They're all hits.” TryingYearsMayDoeMatterHardLastsFilmPracticeMillionsTakenHugeOfficeHollywoodBoxesChinaTechniqueBillionsChineseLast YearPessimisticGood MovieImportsBox OfficeGood FilmsHollywood Movies Author:Jackie Chan
“If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart.” IfsWritingFilmPayMillionsFailingIndustrySucceedHollywoodStatisticsBucksFartFilm Industry Author:George A. Romero
“My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.” IfsKnowsLooksMeanMotherHouseStarsBehindsMillionsHollywoodMilesBlockGrandmotherHanging OutMy GrandmotherMovie StarRopeArrivingMiles AwayPremieresBoulevard Author:Carol Burnett
“I try to live with honor, even if it costs me millions of dollars and takes a long time. It's very unusual in Hollywood. Few people are trustworthy - a handshake means nothing to them. They feel they're required to keep an agreement with you only if you're successful or they need you.” PeopleIfsNeedsFeelsTryingMeanLongMillionsSuccessfulHonorCostLong TimeHollywoodDollarsAgreementUnusualNeed YouTrustworthyHandshake Author:James Cameron
“It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.” IfsHappensStarsChanceStepsMillionsFiguresWindHollywoodEightAccidentsChains Author:Clark Gable