“I don't know the politics of Hollywood. Am I hungry for great material? Every actor is. How I can get to it, that's another story.” KnowsI CanStoriesActorsMaterialsHollywoodHungry Author:Chris Noth
“I think Hollywood is so driven by money, the people who are making the decisions are not necessarily reflective of the melting pot, so what stories are you going to want to tell? You're going to want to tell stories about yourself.” PeopleThinkingWantStoriesDecisionHollywoodDrivenPotAbout YourselfMeltingMelting Pot Author:Sanaa Lathan
“I don't have no story. Everybody wants this Hollywood story, but the world don't owe you nothing, man. It's what you owe the world.” MenWorldWantStoriesHollywood Author:Bernie Mac
“When I go to the movies, one of my strongest desires is to be shown something new. I want to go to new places, meet new people, have new experiences. When I see Hollywood formulas mindlessly repeated, a little something dies inside of me: I have lost two hours to boors who insist on telling me stories I have heard before.” PeopleWantLittlesTwoStoriesDesireDiesLostHoursHeardHollywoodSomething NewStrongestFormulasNew ExperiencesNew PlacesMeeting New People Book:Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007 Source: Roger Ebert's Four Star Reviews--1967-2007
“I always wanted to do a Hollywood story. The thing about actors, though, is that they go through a streak of roles. The question is, what's in between?” StoriesWantedActorsRolesHollywoodStreaks Author:Tom Folsom
“I also wonder why is it that so many of the movies and books that are detective stories are also the most aesthetically interesting? From Hollywood noirs to horror movies like The Shining [1980].” BookStoriesInterestingWonderHorrorHollywoodShiningDetectivesDetective Stories Author:Christopher Bollen
“Any topical subject, if it's Hollywood, will be a couple of years later because you've got to write it, produce it and distribute it, so automatically you're never going to be right on the cutting edge of stories.” IfsWritingYearsStoriesCuttingSubjectsProduceCoupleHollywoodEdgesCutting Edge Author:George Clooney
“If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused.” IfsStoriesHollywoodScriptsCome UpStudiosHollywood Studios Author:Lance Armstrong
“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
“Hollywood no longer offers entertainment. Instead, activism has replaced acting, and sermons have supplanted stories. Instead of a good yarn, you get a yawn.” StoriesActingOffersHollywoodEntertainmentActivismReplacedSermonsYarn Author:Ilana Mercer
“Centuries from now our great-great-great-grandchildren will look back at us with amazement at how we could allow such a precious achievement of human culture as the telling of a story to be shattered into smithereens by commercials, the same amazement we feel today when we look at our ancestors for whom slavery, capital punishment, burning of witches, and the inquisition were acceptable everyday events.” FeelsHumansLooksStoriesTodayFilmCultureCenturyEventsAchievementHollywoodSlaveryEverydayPunishmentBurningWitchAncestorAcceptableGrandchildrenShatteredAmazementCapital PunishmentInquisitionGreat Grandchildren Author:Werner Herzog
“Los Angeles people are incapable of passively mainlining TV and movies. Here you have to read who produced or directed every episode, who wrote it, who had guests shots and whether you know them personally and if they like you. You have to figure out who everybody's agent is and whether yours is better. You not only know but deeply care about the difference between such job titles as Producer, Supervising Producer, and Executive Story Editor. ... So while the rest of the country is lying stupid in a media-induced coma, people in L.A. are in constant withdrawal.” PeopleIfsKnowsCountryStoriesCareJobsLyingDifferencesMediaStupidFiguresTvsLike YouShotsHollywoodConstantProducersAgentsTitlesExecutivesLos AngelesEditorsGuestsEpisodesIncapableWithdrawalComaJob Titles Book:Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye Source: Get Your Tongue Out of My Mouth, I'm Kissing You Good-bye
“I am not interested only in telling a story, but I want to tell it my way. I don't want my accent, my temperament, my narrative style to be compromised to fit into a mold of the Hollywood type.” WayWantStoriesStyleTypeFitHollywoodMy WayNarrativeNot InterestedAccentsTemperamentMold Author:Haile Gerima
“A lot of young black people in America, and even in Africa and Brazil, would say that they are telling their story, but most of the films are like application forms with the formulaic ideas of Hollywood.” PeopleIdeasStoriesAmericaFilmFormYoungBlackHollywoodApplicationBlack PeopleBrazil Author:Haile Gerima
“And if Hollywood has taught us anything, it's that cool props and special effects are not enough. Story comes first. Everything depends on story.” IfsFirstsEnoughStoriesSpecialEffectsTaughtDependsHollywoodPropsTaught UsSpecial Effects Author:Patrick Rothfuss
“I've had various experiences where I've been called by Hollywood studios to look at a script or comment on various scientific ideas that they're trying to inject into a story.” TryingLooksIdeasStoriesHollywoodScriptsVariousStudiosCommentHollywood Studios Author:Brian Greene
“There's always the standard six people you can hire that have played all these villains in Hollywood. Instinctively, when they come on screen, you know what's going to happen. You don't know the story, but you know what they do.” PeopleKnowsStoriesHappensSixStandardsHollywoodScreensVillain Author:Albert Brooks
“I was 12 when I ordered my first guitar out of the worn and discolored pages of the Sears and Roebuck catalog. The story that I bought it on the installment plan is untrue, the invention of a Hollywood press agent. Local color. I paid cash, $8, money I had saved as a hired hand on my uncle Calvin's farm, baling and stacking hay. Prairie hay, used as feed for the cattle in winter. It was mean work for a wiry boy, but ambition made me strong.” FirstsMeanMadeStoriesHandsUsedStrongBoysPlansColorAmbitionPagesHollywoodPaidPressesGuitarWinterSavedInventionLocalsAgentsFarmsCashWornUnclesCattleUntruePrairieHaySearsStacking Author:Gene Autry
“I think most Hollywood meetings are silly and I truly despise pitching. It's insane to expect someone to come in and tell you the story before they've written it, and buying an idea from someone who can explain it rather than write it is like choosing a mechanic based on his ability to draw a picture of your car's problem.” ThinkingWritingIdeasStoriesProblemAbilityWrittenCarDrawsHollywoodMeetingsSillyInsaneBuyingDespiseMechanicPitching Author:Jess Walter
“Michael Moore didn't have to worry that anyone would misinterpret the title of his film, 'Capitalism: A Love Story,' because in Hollywood, no one loves capitalism. That's too bad, because Hollywood is one of capitalism's greatest successes.” StoriesFilmWorryCapitalismHollywoodLove StoryTitlesOne LoveGreatest Success Author:Alex Tabarrok
“What I remember most are some of the guys in the background - who they were and what kind of times we had during those days on the set. I remember staying at Mikes house in Hollywood when we first started filming the series. It was the upper story of a two-story building on a little hillside. Mikes wife, Phyllis, was wonderful. Mike and I laughed a lot and played music together. I remember that time very fondly.” FirstsKindLittlesTwoStoriesTogetherRememberGuyHouseWifeWonderfulBuildingHollywoodSeriesBackgroundsStayingLaughedMike Author:Peter Tork
“I never make a distinction between doing a film in Hollywood or doing a film independently. It's just the story. It's always the story for me. The constants are that it should challenge me and I shouldn't repeat myself. And the story should always be a story worth telling.” ShouldStoriesFilmChallengesHollywoodRepeatsDistinction Author:Cillian Murphy
“Out in Hollywood, where the streets are paved with Goldwyn, the word "sophisticate" means, very simply, "obscene." A sophisticatedstory is a dirty story. Some of that meaning was wafted eastward and got itself mixed up into the present definition. So that a "sophisticate" means: one who dwells in a tower made of a DuPont substitute for ivory and holds a glass of flat champagne in one hand and an album of dirty post cards in the other.” MeanMadeStoriesHandsStreetsHollywoodGlassesDefinitionsAlbumsCardsPostsDirtyFlatsSubstitutesTowersChampagneSophisticationObsceneIvoryObscenity Author:Dorothy Parker
“...we do not simply get showered with Hollywood money because we happened to write a little story about wizards one day. It's not winning the lottery. It's a real job, which real people do, and they have the same real problems as other real people.” PeopleWritingLittlesRealStoriesProblemRealityJobsWinningCommunityWorkMoneyHappenedOne DayHollywoodIdeologyWizardsLotteryReal ProblemsReal JobsWinning The Lottery Author:Joanne Harris
“This is my favorite story of the week. The Republican National Committee is in trouble after spending nearly $2,000 at a bondage club in Hollywood. You know what I call a Republican who spends a lot of money in a strip club? A Democrat.” KnowsStoriesTroubleWeekRepublicanHollywoodDemocratMy FavoriteClubsSpendingLots Of MoneyCommitteesBondage Author:Jay Leno
“Great historians can make the discovery of the real story more exciting than the romantic myth. Stacy Schiff, a great historian as well as a wonderful writer, peels away the layers to reveal the true Cleopatraa much more interesting woman than the Hollywood version and, as it turns out, a formidable queen after all.” WellsRealStoriesTurnsInterestingWonderfulDiscoveryHollywoodExcitingMythVersionsQueensHistorianLayersFormidableReal Story Author:Evan Thomas
“It seems like every year Hollywood makes an attempt to retell the Manson story, and I just couldn't be less interested in it. It's not really our crowning achievement as a civilisation. I'm not saying it shouldn't be done, but it just bores me.” YearsDoneStoriesSeemsAchievementHollywoodBoresCivilisationManson Author:John Hawkes
“Hollywood has definitely grown, in embracing the inclusion of Latinos in the world, because, for some time, we didn't exist. We were not part of any stories.” WorldStoriesHollywoodInclusionLatino Author:Salma Hayek
“While I'm a big fan of science fiction, especially as rendered in expensive Hollywood blockbusters, it's the real universe that calls to me. To fall into a black hole, that is more amazing than anything I've ever read in a science-fiction story.” RealStoriesBigsFallUniverseBlackFictionFansHollywoodScience FictionHolesExpensiveBlack HoleBlockbusterFiction Stories Author:Neil deGrasse Tyson
“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
“The fashion I've acquired over the years is so sacred to me - from costumes to couture, high fashion to punk wear I've collected from my secret international hot spots. I keep everything in an enormous archive in Hollywood. The clothes are on mannequins, also on hangers and in boxes with a photo of each piece, and there's a Web site where I can go to look through everything. It's too big - I could never sort through it myself! But these garments tell the stories of my life.” YearsLooksI CanStoriesBigsSecretPiecesFashionClothesHollywoodHotSacredInternationalBoxesEnormousSpotsPunkSiteCostumesGarmentsStory Of My LifeArchivesCoutureHangersHigh Fashion Author:Lady Gaga
“The creative process is a very collaborative process. I know it might seem that way because so much ink is spilled and the media is obsessed with business and numbers and studios... but filmmakers don't think of it that way. We just go off and we tell our stories. It's the same torture that we adore, it's the same torture that our forefathers endured making movies in the golden era of Hollywood. So, from my perspective it's no different, I'm sure, from the men and women who I admire so much who made the earliest movies.” ThinkingKnowsMenWayMadeDifferentStoriesSeemsMightProcessNumbersCreativeMediaHe ManPerspectiveMen And WomenHollywoodStudiosAdmireGoldenErasObsessedFilmmakerTortureCreative ProcessAdoreInkForefathers Author:Steven Spielberg
“Unfortunately, we live our life in public, so any weight gain or pimple is a national story. I don't get this obsession with weight. It's not only Hollywood; it's our society.” StoriesOur LivesGainsHollywoodWeightObsessionOur SocietyPimples Author:Eva Longoria
“In Hollywood, maybe only ten percent will make it and the other ninety percent try. This elusive dream of making it and being on top is the same story as the moth being drawn to the flame. The flame and it's attractiveness is something you'll never eliminate. Some will learn how to live in that environment and others will burn in it.” TryingStoriesDreamEnvironmentTenPercentHollywoodFlamesNinetyElusiveMothsAttractiveness Author:Conrad Hall
“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.” FeelsStoriesActorsFictionLike YouCreatingHollywoodMovieFilmmakingCanvasCreating SomethingHollywood Movies Author:George Hickenlooper
“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
“The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a score, including the barbarian hordes of Television. But there is one that stands out for me in the post-mortem.... The factor had to do with the basis of movie-making: 'Who shall be in charge of telling the story.'” ThinkingI CanStoriesTelevisionLowsHollywoodBasesIncludingFactorsPostsScoreEmpiresStanding OutBarbariansHordeMovie MakingOld Hollywood Author:Ben Hecht
“47 Ronin is a very special movie for me. Not only a Samurai thing. Not only a Hollywood fantasy. It has a very special mixture between Japanese traditional culture and Western culture for the costume, set, story. Everything. I believe it will be a very special film that no one has ever seen.” BelieveStoriesFilmCultureI BelieveFantasySpecialHollywoodWesternTraditionalCostumesMixturesSamuraiWestern CultureRonin Author:Hiroyuki Sanada
“A lot of college graduates approach me about becoming screenwriters. I tell them, 'Do not become a screenwriter, become a journalist,' because journalists go into worlds that are not their own. Kids who go to Hollywood write coming-of-age stories for their first scripts, about what happened to them when they were sixteen. Then they write the summer camp script. At the age of twenty-three they haven't produced anything, and that's the end of the career.” WorldWritingFirstsEndsStoriesKidsAgeThreeCareersHappenedHavensCollegeBecomingApproachSummerHollywoodTwentiesScriptsJournalistComing Of AgeCampsGraduatesSixteenScreenwritersCollege GraduatesSummer Camp Author:Nora Ephron
“I think it's pretty obvious that women's stories are not necessarily being told in Hollywood and women are not necessarily being put in the leadership positions they deserve in mainstream film.” ThinkingStoriesFilmPositionDeserveHollywoodObviousMainstream Author:Diablo Cody
“I don't know what the misconceptions are, but I approach a small budget, artsy, independent movie in the same way as a big budget, commercial Hollywood movie. I don't get into those [details]. I have to get into my character and I concentrate on that, on the story, on researching, and on certain training if I have to be prepared physically. I think that's the most important thing.” IfsThinkingKnowsWayImportantCharacterStoriesBigsCertainApproachTrainingHollywoodIndependentImportant ThingsPreparedDetailsBudgetsBe PreparedMisconceptionHollywood Movies Author:Olga Kurylenko
“I'm someone who has a singular goal in making films; I want to tell a story. There are certain stories that I want to tell. Hollywood's never really been the ultimate goal for me.” WantStoriesFilmCertainGoalHollywoodUltimateUltimate Goal Author:Kim Jee-woon
“So much of the world is being brought up on these stories that Hollywood is coming up with and exporting all over. They have so much power and influence, so it's really important that they represent women properly.” WorldImportantStoriesInfluenceHollywoodExporting Author:Brit Marling
“I heard, one of my producers told me this story where like the Hollywood studios brought all these high-end consultants in to try to figure out how to improve their process and make films more efficiently, and these consultants like studied the process for years and finally came up with this report they put together about how studios can improve the efficiency of their process, and the conclusion was "have the script ready by the time you're shooting.” TryingYearsEndsStoriesTogetherFilmProcessHeardFiguresReadyHollywoodScriptsStudiosProducersConclusionShootingReportsEfficiencyConsultantsHollywood Studios Author:Joseph Kosinski
“All Hollywood endings - the bad endings have to be the bad guys to be falling about 50 stories to his death and you have to see his eyeballs as he goes to his doom.” StoriesGuyFallHollywoodBad GuysDoomEyeballs Author:Chris Matthews
“You don't see Indians in Hollywood films around which a story can revolve. As soon as we have a social presence in your society, I am sure there will be many actors from our part of the world that will be acting in Hollywood films.” WorldStoriesFilmActorsSocialActingHollywoodIndianHollywood Films Author:Amitabh Bachchan
“When Hollywood sees a good story about a man who sells confidence, they see themselves and they like it.” MenStoriesHollywoodSellsGood Story Author:Ben Stein
“I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections.” FirstsStoriesPerfectTvsMonthsConnectionsHollywoodEightSuccess StoriesTv Commercial Author:Leslie Jordan
“You read these stories of people who were in Hollywood in the late '60s. After they found out about the murders, everybody was like, "Have you met [Charles] Manson? Have you been to that ranch?" In some way, everybody felt connected, but what was it like for people who really were connected.” PeopleWayStoriesFoundFeltMetsLateHollywoodMurderConnectedManson Author:Karina Longworth