Quotes About Hollywood

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

For me, if Shakespeare was around today, he'd be writing screenplays - a big Hollywood movie.

It's very hard to shame people in Hollywood into anything because they don't often feel that kind of shame.

After school, I got a job in a shop in Hollywood and shared an apartment with a friend. I promptly lost my job and got evicted from my apartment, and that happened several times.

In L.A., I was a talent manager for many years. I represented many African-American actors. After a while, I became disheartened over the shortage of roles for African Americans.

I get so much backlash in Hollywood.

What I would say about the Trump travel ban is there goes my Hollywood career!

In Hollywood, they create banks of scripts, whether they are used or not.

I'm about as Baptist as you get in Hollywood.

Hollywood has a lot of barriers set up for everyone. If you can live with it, and you can break through, then you're going to do OK.

With 'Love And Basketball,' every studio turned it down.

Ever since I was a little kid, I told my mom that I want to go to Hollywood and make a 'Batman' movie.

'Be nice' is my family's basic rule but one that often goes unfollowed in Hollywood. There's always a moment when you can choose between being snarky and being kind. I opt for the latter - it's much less exhausting!

It would be nice to do one real Hollywood movie.

Everyone thinks L.A. is the beach. And actually, Hollywood is really far from the beach.

Before Hollywood happened to me, I just took a break to think about whether I belong in the industry or whether I should be listening to whatever people were telling me.

We joke a lot about how, in Hollywood, the writer is one step below the doormat. That's not self-loathing. That's true!

He'd come to Los Angeles to break into the movies as a writer. His soul was still alive then, but he'd met a girl who had dreams of her own, and one thing led to another, and now he was just another member of the goddamned middle class, suckering people for living.

It was like watching a pair of Hollywood execs abuse each other—you had to be powerful to take the abuse with a laugh.

Starlets were always turning up dead in people's pools. They fished them out like goldfish. Nobody seemed to find it unusual that so many young, beautiful women wanted to die.

Hollywood culture is a universal culture now. Everyone wants to step out of life and into the flat perfections of a movie screen. My own wish to drown was not so different from the desire those girls had to leave their real lives behind, to recieve new names and wardrobes and perfectly scripted lines.

Now that we moderns have stripped the earth of its mystery—have made, in Saul Bellow's description, "a housecleaning of belief"—how are our imaginations to be nourished? By Hollywood and made-for-TV movies?

a gun in a film is so culturally specific to America. It looks odd in world cinema unless it's ironic. I wonder if there are more balls in English films than guns, more nipples in French films. Guns in America's story are a constant, a plot device, like coffee cups in European films. Guns are Hollywood.

Brains were being lured to California by mere money. Mere money and space, and sun, and steak, and Hollywood, and more money and opportunity and optimism and openness. All the Os but without one-upmanship. And there was ownership, and friendship, and a future. All inconsequential fripperies, according to the Old World: beads and mirrors. People who took the dollar in exchange for their brains were unpatriotic in much the same way that tax exiles were.