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“Hollywood's old trick: repeat a successful formula until it dies.”

Dies Successful Hollywood Tricks Repeats Movie Formulas

“it's difficult in Hollywood to be allowed to try anything. It's all a terrible compromise. There is no time for art. All that matters is what they call box office.”

Trying Art Matter Difficult Terrible Office Hollywood Boxes Compromise Movie Box Office

Author:Greta Garbo

“One cannot overstate the potential for hysteria on a movie set. Everyone always acts as if making the movie is as important as eradicating malaria.”

Ifs Important Hollywood Movie Hysteria Malaria Movie Sets

Book:Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)

Source: Sister Mother Husband Dog (Etc.)

“Every sacred cow in the business has to do with economics.”

Economics Hollywood Sacred Movie Cows Sacred Cows

Author:Gena Rowlands

“[On filmmaking:] Cardinal rule: It's a youth business.”

Youth Hollywood Movie Filmmaking Cardinals Cardinal Rules

Author:Lynda Obst

“My sense of Los Angeles was very New York provincial, as in 'all those people are crazy out there' (which they are), and stupid (which they're not), and immoral (it's more interesting than that).”

People Interesting Crazy Stupid New York Hollywood Movie Los Angeles Immoral

Author:Lynda Obst

“My goal has been to learn how to get movies made without losing sight of the reasons I began. I have had to learn to recognize the insidious nature of the beast without becoming one.”

Has Beens Made Reason Goal Becoming Losing Hollywood Sight Beast Movie Insidious Becoming One

Author:Lynda Obst

“Ego problems are endemic in every walk of life, but in the movie business egomaniacs are megalomaniacs.”

Problem Walks Ego Hollywood Movie Walks Of Life Movie Business Egomaniacs Megalomaniacs Ego Problem

Author:Lynda Obst

“Hollywood provides ready-made fantasies or daydreams; the problem is whether these are productive or nonproductive, whether the audience is psychologically enriched or impoverished.”

Made Problem Fantasy Audience Ready Hollywood Movie Productive Daydreaming

Author:Hortense Powdermaker

“...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a product which sweetened the flavor of life all over the world.”

World Past Violence Products Hollywood Movie Flavor Once Upon A Time Hyperbole

Book:Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

Source: Fate keeps on happening: adventures of Lorelei Lee and other writings

“Delay and indecision are first weapons in the armory of moviemakers.”

Firsts Weapons Hollywood Movie Delay Indecision

Author:Shirley Temple

“The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend.”

Funny Film Stars Ambition Married Hollywood Average Cute Movie Italian Englishmen Boyfriend Film Stars Hollywood Films Hollywood Stars

Author:Katharine Hepburn

“The stultifying effect of the movies is not that the children see them but that their parents do, as if Hollywood provided a plausible adult recreation to grow up into.”

Ifs Children Grows Parent Growing Up Effects Adults Hollywood Movie Recreation Plausible

Book:Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

Source: Growing Up Absurd: Problems of Youth in the Organized Society

“I love the grandiosity of Hollywood movies, and even in independents, I love the canvas you can tell your story on. I love fiction filmmaking, you really feel like you're creating something.”

Feels Stories Actors Fiction Like You Creating Hollywood Movie Filmmaking Canvas Creating Something Hollywood Movies

Author:George Hickenlooper

“I'm doing 'Les Miserables,' the movie. I've done a lot of musicals and a lot of movies, and I know there are not a lot of people in Hollywood who have been down those two paths so I've been like, 'Come on, let's do a movie/musical.'”

People Knows Has Beens Two Done Actors Path Hollywood Musical Movie Two Paths

Author:Hugh Jackman

“Get busy living, or get busy dying.”

“I guess in Hollywood you chart your life by Oscars. You say to each other, "Remember when that movie won that year? It was 2006. Remember that?"”

Years Remember Actors Hollywood Movie Oscars Remember When

Author:Ang Lee

“I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.”

Thinking Years Stills Actors Audience Hero Hollywood Movie

Author:Wilson Mizner

“I used to think as I looked out on the Hollywood night, 'There must be thousands of girls sitting alone like me dreaming of being a movie star.' But I'm not going to worry about them. I'm dreaming the hardest.”

Thinking Dream Used Night Girl Stars Inspiring Worry Sitting Hollywood Hardest Like Me Movie Follow Your Dreams Movie Star Sitting Alone

Book:My Story

Source: My Story

“If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.”

Ifs I Can Two Reason Sex Women Inspiring Hollywood Critics Refuse Obstacles Gender Resistance Cinema Filmmaker Movie Can't Change Famous Women Cinematography Movie Director

Author:Kathryn Bigelow

“I wanted to do another movie that could make us laugh and cry and feel good about the world. I wanted to do something else that could make us smile. This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.”

People World Needs Feels Wanted Difficult Laughing Cry Hollywood Smile Feel Good Movie Difficult Times Hollywood Movies Smile More

Author:Steven Spielberg

“It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them.”

Knows Should Said Enemy Forgiveness Hollywood Forgiving Movie Forgive Your Enemies

Book:Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth

Source: Lana--the lady, the legend, the truth

“Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.”

Hollywood Definitions Observation Movie Contracts

Author:Walter Winchell

“You're gonna need a bigger boat.”

“I wish I knew how to quit you.”

Source: Brokeback Mountain

“The first rule of Fight Club is you don't talk about Fight Club.”

“My name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die!”

Source: The Princess Bride: An Illustrated Edition of S. Morgenstern's Classic Tale of True Love and High Adventure

“I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse.”

“I'll make him an offer he can't refuse.”

“May the Force be with you.”

“I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.”

“You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.”

Heart Stills Enough Humor Funny Three Rooms Hollywood Fruit Seeds Producers Movie Sincerity Navel Fruit Flies

Author:Fred Allen

“Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her.”

“Carpe diem. (Seize the day.)”

Source: The Odes of Horace

“They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom!”

“Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn.”

“I think I have always tried to do the smaller films. I like to jump around and there is something really nice for acting in a smaller film... But I think now, Hollywood's movies certainly involve a younger generation for the most part and so... I love going back and forth.”

Thinking Film Acting Nice Generations Hollywood Movie Back And Forth Really Nice Younger Generation

Author:Sigourney Weaver

“Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?”

“Gentlemen, you can't fight in here! This is the War Room.”

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