Quotes About Hollywood

In Hollywood, the system is so streamlined, the administration is in place. That's why every six months Spielberg is able to make a film.

These issues of gender equity and diversity have been ongoing conversations throughout the decades. I remember even when I was just starting in the business in the 1980s. It's not just Hollywood's problem. This is systemic. It's in our country, so what happens in Hollywood is that everything's just magnified because it's out there in the public.

In Hollywood, between enthusiasm and money lies the Sahara Desert.

In Hollywood, if you don't have happiness, you send out for it.

Gaylord immediately rehabilitated the log house, which had been allowed to become seriously dilapidated.103 The company had no plans for the property; it just wanted to make Bill comfortable. It was a Nashville-style gesture that would be unknown in New York or Hollywood.

Unfortunately, some of life's most important decisions do not come with many opportunities to practice. Most students choose a college only once. Outside of Hollywood, most of us choose a spouse, well, not more than two or three times. Few of us get to try many different careers.

Hollywood, without knowing it, has its most magnificent year ever. Never again will it come close to matching this year's product. Gone With the Wind takes the Oscar. But it has stiff competition from Goodbye Mr. Chips, Ninotchka, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Wuthering Heights, Dark Victory, and Juarez.

Knowing almost nothing about books or serious magazines, intellectually he is a creature of the movie house, where he is an easy prey to fantasies concocted by Hollywood for the gullible. He

'Winning' in Hollywood means not just power, money, and complimentary smoked-salmon pizza, but also that everyone around you fails just as you are peaking.

I don't give Hollywood the power to limit me. Only God can limit me.

It's a miserable life in Hollywood. You're up at five or six o'clock in the morning to be ready to start shooting at nine.

I've spent several years in Hollywood, and I still think the movie heroes are in the audience.

Hollywood is a sewer with service from the Ritz Carlton.

Over in Hollywood they almost made a great picture, but they caught it in time.

In Beverly Hills, they don't throw their garbage away — they make it into television shows.

Then if your movie clicks with real audiences, you'll be sucked into some sort of Hollywood orbit. It's a devil of a place where the only religion that really counts is box office.

I still do think fondly about my days in Edendale and Mixville — the little-known corners of the city limits where the movies actually were born. Tucked into the once barren hills just west of Downtown were the studios of Western hero Tom Mix and fledgling cartoonist Walt Disney. Behind razor wire near Glendale Boulevard lingered a small stone monument to Comedy. Why? Because the ancient Selig Company had once made movies there.

Saving the world, that's Hollywood bullshit. The best I can do is save a little bit of the world, this little corner that me and this girl stand in. And every time I think that, somewhere I can hear laughter. Them laughing. Like the game is over.

Hollywood raised us. Your mind processes the world through a filter formed by comic books and action movies on Cinemax. That's why kids put on trench coats and take guns to school. The Devil knows how to control us.

The Oscars Ceremony: a great workout for the gag reflex

The measuring stick of success in Hollywood is covered in shit at both ends

To know Dad was to love him... He was the sun and the moon to those fortunate enough to have been in his orbit. Underneath that polished Hollywood veneer beat the heart of a man who came from an industrial engine of steel mills and sweat - from hard-working, wholesome people... Dad adored his wives and doted on his many children, who gladly reciprocated that affection.

Although rumors persist to the contrary, there were no deaths while making the movie Ben Hur.

I think that if Hollywood has a problem, it constantly underestimates the intelligence and integrity of fans.