“If you take a movie like Easy Rider which everyone counts as the beginning of New Hollywood, that is a big movement. And then, when you really dissect that film and the people that were behind that movie, you realize that it has Roger Corman written all over it. Easy Rider is a hybrid film, taking The Trip and The Wild Angels and making a new explosion. And the people that were making it, guess what, they were all [people who had worked with Roger Corman].” PeopleIfsBigsFilmEasyRealizingBehindsWrittenMovementAngelHollywoodOver ItExplosionsRogerRidersHybridEasy Rider Author:Alex Stapleton
“It was just a wonderful experience, one for the memory book for sure. The sad thing about it was that the picture came under this absurd cloud of controversy. Here was a movie based on the central theme that racism is something that is taught, and it's illustrated by this story of a dog and the efforts of humans to re-train it after it had been trained to go after black people. And it created this ridiculous controversy and wound up being the last Hollywood movie that Sam [Fuller] made.” PeopleHumansMadeBookStoriesLastsBlackMemoriesEffortWonderfulDogTaughtRacismHollywoodTrainCloudsWoundsRidiculousAbsurdThemeBlack PeopleControversySad ThingsHollywood MoviesWonderful Experience Author:Curtis Hanson
“I, like most people, came out to Hollywood to get into movies.” PeopleHollywood Author:Neil Berkeley
“I am very suspicious of cameras and dramatic interpretations and the whole Hollywood myth-making process. I don't trust it. I've seen it affect people in bad ways.” PeopleWayWholeProcessHollywoodCamerasMythDramaticInterpretationSuspiciousDon't Trust Author:Wayne White
“I am very, very uneasy with churches that have basically said, "Well, since that's what people want and that's what sells, then were going to do our worship services like Hollywood productions. We're going to have a lot of bells and whistles. We're going to have high entertainment value, and it is going to have a lot of gloss and glitter."” PeopleWantWellsSaidValuesChurchWorshipHollywoodSellsProductionsEntertainmentBellsGlitterUneasyGlossWorship Service Author:Parker J. Palmer
“Hollywood is a cottage industry involving a very small number of people, and around the edges are enormous numbers of people trying to get into it and work.” PeopleTryingNumbersIndustryHollywoodEdgesEnormousInvolvingCottagesSmall Numbers Author:Peter Stone
“Most people in Hollywood are making about 10 percent of all the things they're considering; I am making 95 percent.” PeoplePercentHollywoodConsidering Author:Jay Duplass
“The traditional model for a company like Coca-Cola is to hire one big advertising agency and essentially outsource all of its creativity in that area. But Coca-Cola does not do it that way. It knows how to manage creative people and creative teams and it has been quite adept at building a network that includes the Creative Artists Agency in Hollywood, which is a talent agency.” PeopleKnowsWayDoeHas BeensBigsArtistCompanyCreativityKnow HowCreativeTeamTalentBuildingModelsAreasHollywoodTraditionalAdvertisingManageAgencyCreative PeopleCreative ArtAdvertising AgenciesAdeptCreative ArtistsCoca ColaCreative Team Author:John Kao
“I've certainly been to Hollywood parties, and I have friends that are ridiculous - wonderful people - but they're high rollers with tons of money.” PeoplePartyWonderfulHollywoodRidiculous Author:Justin Hartley
“If it wasn't so pointless and ridiculous, it would be more humiliating. Also, if there [Hollywood] weren't so many people as bad as myself - equally untalented people - it would be even more humiliating.” PeopleIfsWould BeHollywoodRidiculousPointlessHumiliatingUntalented Author:Norm MacDonald
“I've borrowed tons of jewelry. Most people [in Hollywood] do. But it's your responsibility to keep track of it.” PeopleResponsibilityHollywoodTrackJewelryBorrowed Author:Rumer Willis
“Who would know that by playing a nerdy alien and a child killer, I would have a 30-year career in Hollywood? I've outlasted so many people.” PeopleKnowsYearsChildrenCareersHollywoodAliensKillersNerdy Author:Robert Englund
“My goal is to try to weaponize the American people, try to weaponize the conservative movement, try to weaponize the underground conservative Hollywood movement, to weaponize as many people in the center-right country to try to rectify a generation-plus long problem that has been absolute media bias, absolute media used by the Democratic Party as a tool to defeat conservatives.” PeopleTryingLongHas BeensCountryProblemUsedGoalPartyGenerationsMediaMovementToolsHollywoodAbsolutesDemocraticDefeatConservativePlusBiasDemocratic PartyMedia BiasRectify Author:Andrew Breitbart
“Lampoon ran out of steam in the early '80s, and wasn't able to reinvent itself because it ran out of talent. People who wanted to do this kind of stuff could suddenly make $100,000 in Hollywood right out of college.” PeopleKindAbleWantedStuffTalentCollegeHollywoodRan80sSteam Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“In the wake of Animal House, all of us at the Lampoon had a lot of Hollywood opportunities. We could definitely get people to return phone calls.” PeopleOpportunityHouseAnimalReturnHollywoodPhonesPhone Calls Author:P. J. O'Rourke
“That is sort of the eternal question for people who go to Hollywood...what will be the straw that breaks the camel's back, and forces you to think about doing something else? When do you throw in the towel?” PeopleThinkingForceBreakEternalHollywoodStrawsCamelsTowels Author:Alden Ehrenreich
“My mom brought me up on old Hollywood. I had been living in Los Angeles. Respecting old movies and growing up with people that were icons that I got to speak to.” PeopleSpeakGrowing UpGrowingMomHollywoodMy MomLos AngelesIconsOld MovieOld Hollywood Author:Lily Collins
“I think even the Hollywood money people are saying they've got to get the party back from the Clinton wing. They can't, you know, keep nominating these Northeast liberals. They have to look for people who can win.” PeopleThinkingKnowsLooksWinningPartyHollywoodWingsClintonNominating Author:Maureen Dowd
“I went to New York out of college, and in my day, we were told that was the way you became a good actor. You don't go to Hollywood, you go straight to New York and work in the theater. So that's what most of the people I knew did.” PeopleWayActorsNew YorkCollegeHollywoodTheaterGood Actors Author:Brent Spiner
“The blacklist against people in the entertainment industry that show up for [Donald] Trump is worse than that blacklist you heard of in Hollywood back in the forties and fifties.” PeopleShowsHeardIndustryTrumpHollywoodEntertainmentFortyEntertainment Industry Author:Rush Limbaugh
“In Hollywood Westerns even in the Thirties and Forties, history was mythologized to accommodate some kind of moral code. And what really affects me deeply is when you see it taken to the extent where Native Americans become mythical people.” PeopleKindMoralTakenHollywoodCodeNativeFortyNative AmericanAccommodateMoral Code Author:Jim Jarmusch
“It's almost an addiction that some people have to what I call the perfection that Hollywood presents of successful, beautiful, fun-loving people.” PeopleBeautifulFunSuccessfulPerfectionHollywoodAddictionFun Loving Author:Rush Limbaugh
“It's easier to list Hollywood and TV people who don't have a radio show now, take less time to do that than to list those who do.” PeopleShowsTvsEasierHollywoodRadioLists Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Democrats, the mainstream media, Hollywood elites are so out of touch when it comes to keeping you, the American people, safe from radical Islamic terrorism, and they are willing to gamble with your life.” PeopleMediaWillingSafeHollywoodDemocratTerrorismRadicalIslamicElitesMainstreamGambleMainstream MediaIslamic Terrorism Author:Sean Hannity
“If you think that people today, like Hollywood, are ever gonna sing [Donald] Trump's praises, it's never gonna happen. It's only going to get worse. And they know it at the White House. They're not expecting these people to be won over. That's not why Trump's doing anything he's doing. They don't expect the establishment types to one day say, "You know what? You're right, Mr. Trump, this is great. We like what you're doing." It's never gonna happen. They don't expect that to happen.” PeopleIfsThinkingKnowsHappensTodayHouseWhiteTypeTrumpOne DayHollywoodPraiseWhite HouseEstablishmentExpecting Author:Rush Limbaugh
“Back in the Bruce Lee era, and in my era, Kung-Fu stirred up a kind of frenzy, and many people were learning martial arts from us. But about a decade ago, Hollywood began bringing in a number of our action choreographers, including two from my own stunt crew, where they became martial arts directors. Now, a decade later, Hollywood has learned it all, so when you look at the action films they're making now, they all use our action, our martial arts, and then add to that their own technology which is ten times better than ours, and it has to leave us dumbfounded: how did they film that?” PeopleLooksKindArtTwoUseActionFilmMy OwnNumbersTechnologyDirectorsTenHollywoodAddIncludingDecadesErasMartial ArtsCrewOur ActionsFrenzyChoreographersKung FuAction FilmsArt Director Author:Jackie Chan
“For me, I've never been too concerned of what people think of me, so now as the youngest Baldwin brother in Hollywood making movies while simultaneously being a charismatic evangelical born again Christian who's an evangelist - that's a pretty crazy combination. But early on in my walk of faith I said a very personal prayer and made a commitment to God. I said if you reveal yourself to me in a way that is more thrilling and powerful and exciting than anything I've experience thus far, then I'll go anywhere and do whatever you want. And that can be very tough.” PeopleIfsThinkingWayWantMadeSaidChristianBornPrayerWalksPowerfulCrazyBrotherCommitmentToughConcernedHollywoodExcitingCombinationThrillingCommitment To GodEvangelicalBorn AgainThink Of MeCharismaticDo Whatever You WantEvangelists Author:Stephen Baldwin
“The Academy Awards for people in Hollywood is like the Super Bowl, the presidential inauguration and winning the NBA championship rolled up into one.” PeopleWinningHollywoodPresidentialNbaAwardsBowlsChampionshipAcademySuper BowlInaugurationAcademy AwardsNba Championships Author:Cheo Hodari Coker
“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
“In Hollywood, I think I get a bad rap for being a perfectionist. It's something that's not always welcomed in Hollywood, because you're always pushing people and you're pushing yourself to be the best that you can be.” PeopleThinkingHollywoodRapBeing The BestPushingPerfectionistPush Yourself Author:Vin Diesel
“We're Hollywood, it's no big deal to see movie stars, TV stars, whatever. But if I go outside of LA, that's when people freak out.” PeopleIfsBigsStarsDealsTvsHollywoodFreakMovie StarBig Deal Author:George Stults
“Hollywood's like a warehouse. It's just a place that you go. What's interesting in the warehouse has to do with the creative people.” PeopleInterestingCreativeHollywoodCreative PeopleWarehouse Author:Val Kilmer
“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 always represents this big dream and fairy tale in people's minds, but to me, it's just hard work. Of course, we play fairy tale on the red carpet. It's all Cinderella. But when the clock strikes midnight, I turn into a gray mouse and I go home, and I take my dress off and it's over. That's Hollywood.” PeopleMindHardPlayHomeDreamBigsTurnsCoursesHard WorkRedHollywoodDressesStrikesTalesClockFairyGrayFairy TaleMiceMidnightCarpetRed Carpet Author:Olga Kurylenko
“In Hollywood, more often than not, they're making more kind of traditional films, stories that are understood by people. And the entire story is understood. And they become worried if even for one small moment something happens that is not understood by everyone.” PeopleIfsKindMomentsStoriesHappensFilmUnderstoodHollywoodTraditionalWorriedSmall Moments Author:David Lynch
“People think in Hollywood there's a family, where everybody gets together talks about stuff and we all know each other, and it's just not that way at all to me.” PeopleThinkingKnowsWayTogetherStuffHollywood Author:David Lynch
“I'm one of the few people in Hollywood who actually had a good childhood.” PeopleChildhoodHollywoodGood Childhood Author:Seth MacFarlane
“I'm wide open to getting married, but actors are not easy people to date. You end up sharing that person with this other mistress that is their career. I very much like the traditional courtship method of making a date. That's what they do in normal places, but Hollywood's not normal.” PeoplePersonsEndsActorsEasyCareersNormalMarriedHollywoodMethodWideTraditionalMistressGetting MarriedCourtship Author:Seth MacFarlane
“Remember, I come from such an excessively overdone, red-carpet place called Hollywood. So I'm used to people blowing up their success in ways that are far above and beyond the truth.” PeopleWayRememberUsedRedHollywoodCarpetRed CarpetAbove And BeyondBlowing Up Author:Shirley MacLaine
“I wanted people to see that I really am a real person. I'm not just some guy who was on a TV show, some guy engulfed in the Hollywood life. I'm just a normal guy when it comes down to it.” PeoplePersonsRealShowsWantedGuyTvsNormalHollywoodTv ShowsReal PersonScottyHollywood Life Author:Scotty McCreery
“In Hollywood now when people die they don't say, 'Did he leave a will?' but 'Did he leave a diary?'” PeopleDiesHollywoodDiaries Author:Liza Minnelli
“I don't know if high society is different in other cities, but in Hollywood, important people can't stand to be invited someplace that isn't full of other important people. They don't mind a few unfamous people being present because they make good listeners.” PeopleIfsKnowsMindImportantDifferentInspiringCitiesHollywoodListenersInvitedGood Listener Book:My Story Source: My Story
“People ask me if I ever feel outside the Hollywood loop, and I never do, because both of us do a lot of theatre, so it's great for New York and it's also half-way between Europe and the west coast, so it's the best of both worlds.” PeopleIfsWorldWayFeelsAsksHalfNew YorkEuropeHollywoodWestTheatreAsk MeCoastLoopsWest CoastHalf WayBest Of Both Worlds Author:Liam Neeson
“In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.” PeopleTryingFilmTermBreakIndustryHollywoodEnglandGood ThingsBad ThingsOpennessAppetiteSuspicionFilm Industry Author:Christopher Nolan
“I'm an actor, not a star. Stars are people who live in Hollywood and have heart-shaped swimming pools.” PeopleHeartActorsStarsHollywoodSwimmingPoolSwimming Pool Author:Al Pacino
“Hollywood views regular people as children, and they think they're the smart ones who need to tell the idiots out there how to be.” PeopleThinkingNeedsChildrenViewsSmartHollywoodIdiot Author:Trey Parker
“Hollywood is a peculiar beast - people in Hollywood are nuts.” PeopleHollywoodBeastPeculiarNuts Author:James Patterson
“Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.” PeopleNeedsRealizingBornProductsHollywoodFake Author:Katy Perry
“Hollywood is finally waking up to the fact that people who go to church also go to the movies. I'm not sure what took them so long to see that or how long they'll keep it up.” PeopleLongFactsChurchHollywoodWake UpNot SureWaking Author:Tyler Perry
“Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.” PeopleNextBornDoorsHollywoodObsession Author:Robert Redford