Hollywood Quotes

I'm a producer... I am a Hollywood producer. That is so weird. And it's not lame. But it's just like, how did that happen?

So much of Hollywood is about who the people you work with are.

Hollywood is famous for breeding monsters, and having worked in the business, I've known a lot of them. But only intermittently have I ever found them monstrous. They have many other qualities.

I do have complicated feelings about Hollywood, but I also have tremendously affectionate ones.

in Hollywood, everyone wants what someone else wants. It's like a law.

In Hollywood they usually cast me as villains or priests

Hollywood is in the perception business where you create layers to create mystery. In Silicon Valley it's about taking away the layers to get to the substance.

Women are the last group anyone cares about in Hollywood.

I don't consider myself a starlet or a Hollywood person.

When you're a young actor you ring your agent every evening. It's not like when you're in Hollywood where you do one picture a year. You just hope you get a day on television.

I tell people, 'It's just like a cliche, but it's true: In Hollywood, dreams can come true.'

My best advice about working in Hollywood is: Save your money!

I've sold 11 of my books to Hollywood. There are all kinds of my books on shelves in Hollywood because the scripts didn't capture the characters.

The people in Hollywood are fabulously stupid.

I get it that remakes are a drag to hear about. I'm on the Internet all the time. I know what they say. Like there's no original ideas in Hollywood.

Let's be honest - look what Hollywood at 18 is.

Hollywood would much prefer the author be dead, so that they can buy the book and do what they want to do with it.

Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.

I think writing is the most underrated thing in Hollywood.

Hollywood was never great for children.

I don't find the life in Hollywood all that meaningful or inspiring.

I reject the concept that comic books in movies are a genre. I have been fighting that for many years, with the powers-that-be in Hollywood.

Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet.

I think being a foreigner and talking about Hollywood allowed me to use some cliches and some references that an American would maybe not use.

Hollywood doesn't believe in the death penalty for anyone except people who get cable TV without paying for it. Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

I don't really know what Hollywood is. I've never really known.

I don't have much history - I've got Rosie Perez, Jennifer Lopez, Rita Moreno. That's it. That's the history of Latin women in Hollywood, really.

You know how Hollywood is: They just follow suit.

Well, I think Hollywood, to be quite honest, I think they've run out of material.

America's cultural table is set by the people living in the three bubbles - New York Washington D.C. and Hollywood.

The main problem is that the Hollywood system has already made the film before the director shoots a single frame.

One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would be anathema to anyone who wants to hold a job down in Beverly Hills.

Films are made all over the world all the time and only a thin slice of that product is Hollywood.

Hollywood likes to boast that it can elevate the national conscience.

I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

I hope Hong Kong and Asia wants to hire American Asian actresses as much as Hollywood has been hiring Chinese actors from Asia.

Hollywood is portrayed in this super glamorous way, but when I see pictures of actresses going off the rails, it doesn't surprise me at all.

Bollywood actors are so set in what they want, and the way they want it. And why shouldn't they be? But it is not the same in Hollywood, because the love of the audience is not the same.

Whenever Hollywood makes films about us, it's 12 Years a Slave or The Butler or The Help. That is not the sum total of who we are as a people.

I can meet any producer in Hollywood and look them in the eye, knowing I didn't sleep with them, or do drugs with them.

I would never complain that Hollywood is racist when I'm one of the people touted as a welcome entity there.

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

Hollywood is, I always argue, has a great track record of making good films.

The categories of A-minus through C-plus [films] are completely dominated by Hollywood.

We always say about Hollywood that it's a company town and it's sort of is. It's like in Washington, they say, you know, the company is the government.

I would love to play Wonder Woman; I have the abilities and the strength because I am definitely not the typical Hollywood actress.

I love all the Hollywood women. I saw all the films when I was a teenager. Jack Smith's "Flaming Creatures".

My spirit had been broken a bit over the years by my having to work on films I didn't love. Hollywood's a surreal place, and it really is an assault on your spirit.

I think the press is doing a wonderful job of putting the pressure on the decision-makers in Hollywood to support more female directors.