“There has to be the popcorn genre element, or I don't engage the same way. I like action and vehicle design and guns and computer graphics as much as I like allegory. It's a constant balancing game. I want audiences to be on this rollercoaster that fits the Hollywood mould, but I also want them to absorb my observations.” WayWantActionGamesAudienceDesignFitElementsComputerGunHollywoodConstantObservationGenreVehiclePopcornMouldAllegoryRollercoasterComputer Graphics Author:Neill Blomkamp
“In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesn't work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. They're relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists.” ThinkingWayTryingReasonEnoughArtistForgetTechnologyToo MuchComputerHollywoodCopiesAnimationGood MoviePixarComputer Animation Author:Tim Burton
“It was only when I got to college that I realized that the rest of the world didn't run the way my world was run, and that there was a need for feminism. I'd thought it was all solved. There are people like my mom, clearly everyone is equal and it's all fine. Then I get into the world and I hear the things people are saying. Then I get to Hollywood and hear the very casual, almost insidious misogyny that just runs through so much of the fiction. It was just staggering to me.” PeopleWorldWayNeedsRunningFictionFeminismCollegeFineMomEqualHollywoodMy MomI RealizedMisogynyCasualInsidiousStaggeringEveryone Is Equal Author:Joss Whedon
“Everyone in Hollywood thinks like a Republican fiscally by leaving town to shoot everything; they just don't vote that way.” ThinkingWayRepublicanHollywoodVoteTownsLeaving Author:Adam Carolla
“In a way, the web is like your Hollywood agent: It speaks for you whenever you are not around to comment” WaySpeakLike YouHollywoodMarketingAgentsComment Author:Chris Brogan
“You know, when I first went into the movies Lionel Barrymore played my grandfather. Later he played my father and finally he played my husband. If he had lived I'm sure I would have played his mother. That's the way it is in Hollywood. The men get younger and the women get older.” IfsKnowsMenWayFirstsAgeMotherFatherFeminismHe ManHusbandHollywoodFeministMy HusbandGrandfatherWomens RightsMy Grandfather Author:Lillian Gish
“I never watched Friends, maybe because it was written by people straight out of college....The only way to avoid age discrimination in Hollywood is to die young.” PeopleWayArtAgeYoungDiesWrittenCollegeHollywoodDiscriminationDie Young Author:Larry Gelbart
“As a little kid growing up in Hollywood, I was called 'a little crazy'. And now I guess I'm still that way.” WayLittlesStillsKidsGrowing UpGrowingCrazyHollywoodLittle KidKids Growing Up Author:Leonardo DiCaprio
“If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will.” IfsWayChangeBreakProduceDirectHollywoodTreatsOlder Women Author:Naomi Watts
“I came across awful characters when I got some kind of status and came to Hollywood. Then you have directors trying to sleep with you, assuming that you will do things because of the way you dress.” WayTryingKindCharacterSleepDirectorsHollywoodDressesAssumingAwful Author:Stacey Dash
“I'm happy with the way I look, but I'm not Hollywood beautiful.” WayLooksBeautifulHollywood Author:Joanne Froggatt
“Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project.” IfsWayStoriesWantedProjectsHollywoodSurpriseScriptsCommitSurprise Me Author:Sherilyn Fenn
“Don't ever humiliate a man. If you're gonna have to dress him out, you take him aside and do it that way. That's the one thing I don't like about Hollywood: They go in for public humiliation. You shouldn't do that to a man.” IfsMenWayOne ThingHollywoodDressesHumiliationHumiliate Author:Rip Torn
“You know, women in Hollywood, we don't get action franchises and superheroes. The rom-coms that made Julia Roberts, Sandra Bullock, and Reese Witherspoon stars are out of favor right now- nobody is making them. In this business, if you are an ambitious person, you don't wait for people to hand you opportunities. You have to make a way for yourself.” PeopleIfsKnowsWayPersonsMadeHandsActionOpportunityStarsWaitingRight NowHollywoodFavorsAmbitiousSuperheroJuliaAmbitious Person Author:Elizabeth Banks
“I can't really remember my life without movies... [Growing up in Hollywood] is no different really. I make movies the same way other kids play tennis or go to piano lessons. I'm trying to get better at what I want to do, just like other kids are trying to get better at what they want to do.” WayWantTryingI CanDifferentPlayKidsRememberGrowing UpGrowingLessonsHollywoodPianoGet BetterTennisPiano Lesson Author:Elle Fanning
“I've learned by hanging out in Hollywood, where I disagree politically with most people, that most people's hearts are in the right place, and the only thing we have to argue about is the way to solve the problems” PeopleWayHeartProblemHollywoodSolveArguingI've LearnedHanging OutDisagreeRight Place Author:Tom Selleck
“It’s literally true, as Shakespeare said--all the world’s a stage. It wasn’t that way when I first got into the movies in 1924, but it is now. That’s why I find Hollywood newer and more exciting every day. Whatever you hear it’s still a place where a kid from Montana can jump on a horse, ride that-a-way, and keep right on going.” WorldWayFirstsSaidStillsKidsStageHollywoodExcitingHorseMontana Author:Gary Cooper
“I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty.” WayI CanHollywoodTypicalBeacons Author:Octavia Spencer