“In 1972 Charlie Chaplin was allowed back to America to receive an honorary Oscar, 'for the incalculable he had on making motion pictures the art form of this century'. That's what the Academy was always for - to blur the equation enough so that profit and fame could be called art.” ArtEnoughAmericaFilmFormCenturyFameHollywoodProfitOscarsEquationsAcademyCharlieBlurMotion PicturesChaplinHonorary Author:Edward Jay Epstein
“Hollywood is a showman's paradise. But showmen make nothing; they exploit what someone else has made. The publisher and the play producer are showmen too; but they exploit what is already made. The showmen of Hollywood control the making - and thereby degrade it. For the basic art of motion pictures is the screenplay; it is fundamental, without it there is nothing. Everything derives from the screenplay, and most of that which derives is an applied skill which, however adept, is artistically not in the same class with the creation of a screenplay.” ArtMadePlayClassCreationSkillsHollywoodFundamentalsProducersParadisePublishersExploitsScreenplaysDegradeMotion PicturesAdept Book:Later Novels & Other Writings Source: Later Novels & Other Writings
“Hollywood, what a place it is! It is so far away from the rest of the world, so narrow. No one thinks of anything but motion pictures or talks of anything else.” ThinkingWorldHollywoodFar AwayMotion Pictures Author:Dolores del Rio
“I grew up in Hollywood, California. A lot of my parents' friends were in the motion picture industry, but I saw their doctor friends as more solid. I admired them; there was a peacefulness in them, a sense of purpose that I liked. So I became very interested in being a surgeon.” PurposeParentSawsGrewIndustryGrew UpDoctorsHollywoodCaliforniaSurgeonsMotion PicturesPeacefulness Author:Spencer Johnson
“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
“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