“Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.” GivingWellsFactsStoriesSeemsActionFilmStuffForgetViolenceCarCoupleSceneEssentialsHollywoodGive MeStructureShootingBroadsFadsAction Films Author:Clint Eastwood
“It was certainly a good death scene. I'm endlessly perishing in roles but it's a wonderful thing to be asked to do.” FilmRolesWonderfulSceneHollywoodWonderful ThingsPerishing Author:Emilia Fox
“I have been working out for 30 years, staying in shape in the dream that someday I would get to play a sex scene. Finally I get one, and they cut it.” YearsHas BeensPlayDreamFilmSexCuttingSceneShapesHollywoodWork OutSomedayStaying Author:William H. Macy
“When you audition for shows in Hollywood, you go in, you do your scene, maybe you get an adjustment. It's sort of easy, and a lot of times it just feels sort of rote and simple. Whereas when you go to New York and you audition for plays, you walk out sweaty and intimidated and nervous and doubting yourself as an actor.” FeelsPlayShowsActorsEasySimpleWalksDoubtNew YorkSceneHollywoodNervousAuditionsAdjustmentIntimidatedDoubting Yourself Author:Ben Feldman
“Being accused of making money by selling sex in Hollywood, home of the casting couch and the gratuitous nude scene, is so rich with irony that it's a better subject for a comic novel than a column.... On one coast the cops are busting sex workers on Eighth Avenue, dragging them downtown to night court where they pay the fine and go right back to their corner; on another they're charging Heidi Fleiss with pandering in a town in which the verb is an art form.” ArtHomeFormNightSexPayNovelRichSubjectsFineSceneHollywoodTownsCourtWorkersCornersSellingComicMaking MoneyIronyHypocrisyCopCoastCastingAccusedAvenuesCouchesColumnsVerbsDowntownChargingBustingBeing AccusedHeidiNight Court Author:Anna Quindlen
“In Hollywood, you've got a hundred people on set, and shooting the sex scene you're wearing nude-toned underwear and tape on your nipples. Nothing is going beyond where you want it to go.” PeopleWantSexSceneHundredHollywoodShootingTapeUnderwearNipples Author:Lena Dunham
“But you know, I'm very conscious that people criticize Hollywood. Yet we've created a form, the Western, that can be understood in every country. The good guys against the bad guys. No nuances. And the horse is the best vehicle of action in our medium. You take action, a scene, and scenery, and cut them together, and you never miss.” PeopleKnowsCountryActionTogetherFormGuyCuttingMissingSceneConsciousUnderstoodHollywoodHorseWesternMediumsCriticizeVehicleBad GuysGood GuyNuanceScenery Author:John Wayne
“I've made humanitarian causes and my children much more my priority than the Hollywood scene, being liked and getting movie parts.” ChildrenMadeCausesSceneHollywoodHumanitarianPrioritiesMy Children Author:Sharon Stone
“You know, in Hollywood you know when somebody is getting pregnant. It's supposed to be this beautiful scene: the rays are coming in and you have these beautiful perfect bodies lying on top of each other and there's the room glowing in one person's eyes and the sun coming up over the other person's shoulder.” KnowsPersonsBodyEyeBeautifulLyingPerfectRoomsSunSceneHollywoodShouldersSupposed To BeRaysPregnantGlowing Author:Staceyann Chin
“Ironically, even the fashion in New York or Paris or Milan or whatever, or music in Berlin, or art in, I don't know, Madrid - all these scenes come and go. Everything leads back to Hollywood.” KnowsArtFashionNew YorkSceneHollywoodParisComes And GoesBerlinMadridMilan Author:Nicolas Winding Refn
“These 150-minute superhero films that Hollywood is making are so concerned with their length that each scene doesn't have the time it needs to make sense.” NeedsFilmMinutesSceneConcernedHollywoodMake SenseLengthSuperhero Author:Sonia Braga
“I'm not part of the Hollywood scene. I don't run around with 30 women. I have a very calm household. I'm surrounded by my grandkids and wonderful friends, and I consider myself very lucky.” RunningWonderfulSceneLuckyHollywoodCalmHouseholdGrandkidsWonderful Friends Author:Rick James
“I really like having a life outside work. I sometimes wish I did more career stuff and was in that Hollywood scene a bit more. But Toronto's my home.” SometimesHomeWishStuffBitsCareersSceneHollywoodToronto Author:Rachel McAdams
“My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.” WorldKindMotherNew YorkSceneHollywoodTheaterActressesDowntown Author:Martha Plimpton
“It's like one of those scenes from a feel-good Hollywood movie. Where everybody is happy and nobody's hair fizzes in the wind. Where it doesn't rain, your shoes stay comfortable all day, and everybody's jokes are funny.” FeelsWindHairSceneComfortableJokesRainHollywoodShoesFeel GoodHollywood Movies Author:Randa Abdel-Fattah
“In the movie, the stars above the ship bear no correspondence to any constellations in a real sky. Worse yet, while the heroine bobs... we are treated to her view of this Hollywood sky-one where the stars on the right half of the scene trace the mirror image of the stars in the left half. How lazy can you get?” RealCultureLeftStarsViewsHalfSkyBearsSceneHollywoodMirrorsTreatedAssShipsLazyBobBad AssConstellationsHeroinesCorrespondenceMirror Image Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“Last summer a second unit production crew went to France and shot scenes for several of this seasons episodes. They shot costumed actors in and around real castles and landmarks, we couldnt possibly have duplicated here in Hollywood.” RealLastsActorsSceneSummerShotsHollywoodSeasonsProductionsFranceEpisodesUnitsCrewCastlesLandmarksLast Summer Author:Vic Morrow