“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.” TryingArtMatterDifficultTerribleOfficeHollywoodBoxesCompromiseMovieBox Office Author:Greta Garbo
“To whom one reports is a unit of measure. It measures the exact distance between the player and the center of power. It is the closest we can get to a calibrated answer to the question 'How big am I?' More than the size of an executive's office or even his title, which no one remembers anyway, the fewer people between the player and a 'yes,' the more powerful he is.” PeopleBigsRememberAnswersPowerfulPowerPlayerOfficeHollywoodDistanceSizeTitlesReportsExecutivesFewerClosestUnits Author:Lynda Obst
“Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.” PeopleThinkingKnowsRunningChurchDecisionOfficeHollywoodSouthConnectedExecutivesChicagoMississippiCarolinaAlabamaSouth Carolina Author:Steve Harvey
“With Hollywood you're yesterday's news if you get a flop at the box office. So you might as well be braced to have something else to do that's interesting. Have something lined up to keep your stories fulfilled, and your ideas, because if you're just cranking out movies three times a year.” IfsYearsWellsIdeasStoriesMightThreeInterestingOfficeNewsHollywoodBoxesYesterdayFulfilledThree TimesBox Office Author:David Gordon Green
“France can compete with the Hollywood studios in terms of animation savoir-faire, but not in terms of box-office figures. France is a small country, and the Americans are the masters of the world - for cinema, it's true.” WorldCountryTermFiguresMastersOfficeHollywoodBoxesStudiosFranceCinemaAnimationBox OfficeSmall CountriesHollywood StudiosSavoir Faire Author:Michel Ocelot
“When television killed comedy and love stories, the movie makers went in slugging. They offered the downbeat, the degenerate as competition. This seems to me to be a sad campaign for Hollywood to use to combat box office disaster.” StoriesUseSeemsComedyTelevisionOfficeHollywoodAnd LoveCompetitionBoxesCampaignsDisasterLove StoryMakersCombatDegeneratesBox Office Author:Joan Crawford
“Hollywood is designed to check the box office on Monday morning and see: "How'd we do? How much?" It's another facet of this whole culture of accumulation and consumption. Black people are caught up in it, white people are caught up in it, white actors, black actors, female actresses - everybody's caught up in it.” PeopleWholeCultureActorsBlackWhiteMorningOfficeFemaleHollywoodCaughtBoxesActressesChecksBlack PeopleConsumptionCaught UpMondayAccumulationFacetsMonday MorningBox Office Author:Danny Glover
“Hollywood's thinking is very typical. And it's just really predictable too. And I think at Hollywood, these box office movies are flopping. I mean, there hasn't been an original thought coming out of Hollywood since the '80s.” ThinkingMeanOfficeHollywoodOriginalsBoxesComing OutTypical80sPredictableBox OfficeOriginal ThoughtFlopping Author:Andrea Tantaros
“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
“I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola.” NamesNeededWalkingOfficeHollywoodCasting Author:Nicolas Cage
“When you have box-office results, Hollywood treats you different. Hollywood stands up. Once you get to the point where Hollywood sees that you create results, then the demand for you becomes higher.” DifferentResultsHigherDemandOfficeHollywoodTreatsBoxesBox Office Author:Kevin Hart
“What I find astounding is that we've had a president who is black in office for the past eight years, who gets most of his funding from the liberal elite in Hollywood. Yet, there are not very many roles for people of color. How can that be? And why is it just now being addressed?” PeopleYearsPastBlackPresidentRolesColorOfficeHollywoodEightElitesFunding Author:Stacey Dash
“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
“I've been working in Hollywood for a long time now in many different aspects in front of the camera, behind the camera, and I've worked with top executives, presidents of networks. I've worked all around. I see energy and what's around these studios and a lot of these offices. You don't get the high positions in these companies if you don't take advantage of other people in some way. I've seen that around. I've seen that around the studios, whether it's producers or whoever. Egos are there. Greed.” PeopleIfsWayLongDifferentEnergyPresidentBehindsCompanyFrontsPositionEgoOfficeLong TimeAdvantageAspectHollywoodCamerasGreedStudiosProducersExecutives Author:James Van Praagh
“What counts in Hollywood is box office. It doesn't really matter what people think of you as an actor because, as long as you have been in a movie that has made money, you will always get another job.” PeopleThinkingLongHas BeensMadeMatterJobsActorsOfficeHollywoodBoxesThink Of YouBox Office Author:Diane Kruger
“Hollywood embraced me in the late '80s because there was a good project I was in and it was different. Nowadays, it's about corporate mentality, box office, youth.” DifferentYouthOfficeProjectsLateHollywoodBoxesCorporateMentality80sBox OfficeDifferent Mentality Author:Marlee Matlin
“Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.” PeopleValuesHateCultureNextKnownGraceLove YouDogFashionWindOne DayOfficeHollywoodBoxesUnpredictableHate YouRevenueBox OfficePersonal Values Book:One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World Source: One Way Love: Inexhaustible Grace for an Exhausted World
“Its big men are mostly little men with fancy offices and a lot of money. A great many of them are stupid little men, with reach-me-down brains, small-town arrogance and a sort of animal knack of smelling out the taste of the stupidest part of the public. They have played in luck so long that they have come to mistake luck for enlightenment." - on Hollywood” MenLittlesLongBigsAnimalMistakeBrainStupidTasteOfficeEnlightenmentHollywoodTownsLuckArroganceFancyLots Of MoneySmall TownKnackLittle ManStupidest Author:Raymond Chandler
“I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films.” BigsFilmStarsOfficeMassHollywoodBoxesStudiosConventionalBox OfficeHollywood Stars Author:Laura Dern
“If just a few people make decisions about what this world looks like, what this country looks like, then you have people sitting in offices at major media outlets and Hollywood who think they can deal with a small group of people, to get them to jump through the hoops they want you to.” PeopleIfsThinkingWorldWantLooksCountryDecisionDealsGroupsMediaThis WorldOfficeMajorsSittingHollywoodOutletsSmart PeopleSmall Groups Author:Rick Santorum