“A lot of people who are actors and artists who work in Hollywood come from a background of abuse, and you can make abused people very fearful and they'll do what they're told. Hollywood definitely has a point of view that it sells.” PeopleArtistActorsViewsHollywoodAbuseSellsPoint Of ViewBackgroundsFearful Author:Roseanne Barr
“The technology companies don't understand creative things at all. Silicon Valley's view of the creative process in Hollywood is a bunch of guys in their young thirties sitting on a couch, drinking beer, and thinking up jokes.” ThinkingYoungGuyProcessViewsCompanyTechnologyCreativeJokesSittingHollywoodDrinkingBunchBeerValleysCreative ProcessCouchesSiliconSilicon ValleyDrinking Beer Author:Steve Jobs
“I think it's important to control your opportunities, because in the entertainment world, it's not up to you. I'm not sitting here under this naïve belief that someone in Hollywood is going, "Gaffigan! What kind of a show can I build around him?" So you have to find things that can showcase your point of view.” ThinkingWorldKindImportantShowsOpportunityBeliefViewsSittingHollywoodEntertainmentPoint Of ViewUp To YouShowcase Author:Jim Gaffigan
“I can't imagine that anyone in Hollywood is sitting around trying to decide what actor is good or right or qualified for a role and is being denied a role because of their political views. I don't think that's the way Hollywood works. We're not living in an era of blacklisting.” ThinkingWayTryingI CanPoliticalActorsViewsRolesImagineSittingHollywoodErasDeniedImagine ThatQualifiedSitting AroundPolitical View Author:Kevin Spacey
“It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all these talented people trying to get excited about stuff they themselves would only view at gunpoint.” PeopleTryingCareStuffChanceViewsGunHollywoodTragedyExcited Author:Stephen Gaghan
“You know how Van Nuys got its name? Well, one day my little old Jewish mother was visiting me, and I took her to the top of the Hollywood Hills and had her view the valley below just at sunset. Well, mama, what would you call that? And she said, Ver nize.” KnowsWellsLittlesSaidMotherNamesViewsKnow HowOne DayHollywoodHillsSunsetValleysVansMamaVisitingJewish MotherHollywood Hills Author:Joey Bishop
“When people think about this religion, they'll say "voodoo" this and "voodoo" that in the way the Hollywood movies show it: the sticking of pins in dolls. It's very different than Vodou - which is a religion that comes to Haiti from our ancestors in Africa. I want to differentiate it from the stereotypical, sensationalized view that we see of the religion.” PeopleThinkingWayWantDifferentShowsViewsHollywoodAncestorPinsDollsHaitiDifferentiateHollywood MoviesVoodoo Author:Edwidge Danticat
“Hollywood is really weird to talk about in this monolithic sense because it's this microcosm of anywhere. It's full of a lot of people who have different intentions and different points of view.” PeopleDifferentViewsHollywoodIntentionPoint Of ViewReally WeirdMicrocosmDifferent Points Of View Author:Karina Longworth
“I don't understand the whole concept of doubles. They used to do that in the early sound films in Hollywood, but I thought we had gotten rid of that. Now not only do you have doubles, but as in Flashdance, you have triples, quadruples. From my point of view it is bad for the art.” ArtWholeFilmUsedSoundViewsConceptsHollywoodPoint Of View Author:Gene Kelly
“I think it is the responsibility of critics to rely less strenuously on, to use a Hollywood phrase, "what they can live with," and more on an examination of the works of art from an aesthetic and clinical point of view.” ThinkingArtUseViewsResponsibilityHollywoodCriticsPoint Of ViewPhrasesRelyWorks Of ArtAestheticExaminationClinicals Book:Conversations with Edward Albee Source: Conversations with Edward Albee
“Media is everything, and when you live in Los Angeles and you live in New York, it's almost impossible to run into a conservative point of view because the conservatives that exist in Hollywood, where much of the media's done, and the conservatives that live in New York where a lot of the media's done are fearful of even expressing their conservative point of view.” DoneRunningViewsImpossibleMediaNew YorkHollywoodConservativePoint Of ViewLos AngelesFearful Author:Andrew Breitbart
“What I'm really trying to do is recreate classic Hollywood cinema and classic genre cinema from a woman's point of view. Because most cinema is really made for men, how can you create cinema that's for women without having it be relegated to a ghetto of "chick flick" or something like that?” MenTryingMadeViewsHollywoodPoint Of ViewGenreCinemaClassicChicksGhettoChick Flick Author:Anna Biller
“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
“On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking.” PeopleThinkingCountryStatesUnitedViewsUnited StatesInfluenceHollywoodMajorityEntertainmentScalesMagazinesTonight Author:Kid Rock
“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