Quotes About Hollywood

You have this idea that Hollywood is all about making money and is very impersonal. But 'Love, Simon' is such a passion project for director Greg Berlanti.

People think that the people in Hollywood have some master plan. They just make the movies that people go to see. I think it's that simple. I promise you if people were lining up around the block to see a Bible movie, they'd make Bible movies from now to the end of time.

The dream factory of that time was much simpler. As media outlets grew, everything became so complicated.

He said to them, "Weird? This ain't weird." And then he uttered the phrase that one heard every night around the station when things seemed too surreal to be true: "Man, this is fucking Hollywood!" After that, there was usually no need for further comment.

You're right, bro," Jetsam said. "Why should I give a shit if a driver don't have pants on? Sometimes I forget where I'm at." Then he looked at his partner and they said in unison, "This is fucking Hollywood!

This is Hollywood," Flotsam said, "where men are men and so are the women.

Have I ever told you, you look like Monty Clift? he inquired in a deep, seductive voice. Before or after the accident?

In Paul's day, writing to Corinthians about God's love was the equivalent of writing a letter on family values to Hollywood today. "Corinthian" was synonymous with immorality. To "play the Corinthian" meant to give oneself to sexual pleasure. A "Corinthian girl" was another word for a prostitute. How could Paul hope to convey an understanding of God's pure love to a city steeped in perversion?

Hollywood es la antítesis de lo ruso. Todo diversión, nada de sustancia. Más al oeste no hay nada. Si le gusta la carne poco hecha, lea a Tolstoi. Si demasiado pasada, vea Transformers. —¿Y usted? —A mí me gusta al punto. Justo en el medio. Dickens. Shakespeare. —

The story describing the event circled the globe, thanks to the Associated Press, and brought its own surprise benefit. Hollywood took notice, and The Wolves at the Door was optioned for a movie. Only preliminary work has begun on the film, but I have every confidence that Virginia's dedication to freedom will soon appear on the silver screen.

I was born at the age of twelve on an MGM lot.

Hollywood is a strange place if you're in trouble. Everybody thinks it's contagious.

If the Indian people want stories written about themselves, how they want them told, they are going to have to make them, they're going to have to finance them. If you let Hollywood do it, Hollywood is going to get it wrong most of the time.

You're taught - consciously or sub-consciously - to make an indie so you can get through that terrible process and get to Hollywood. I realized when I got there, 'Oh, no; I think I'm better over here.'

I like the nexus of Bollywood and Hollywood. I'm actually shocked that there isn't more of a meld between our two industries.

As much as we'd like to believe that our work is great and that we're infallible, we're not. Hollywood movies are made for the audience. These are not small European art films we're making.

Because I direct films, I have to live in a major English-speaking production center. That narrows it down to three places: Los Angeles, New York and London. I like New York, but it's inferior to London as a production center. Hollywood is best, but I don't like living there.

I saw I wasn't an ingenue like Debbie Reynolds.

There's nothing in Hollywood that's inherently detrimental to good art. I think that's a fallacy that we've created because we frame the work that way too overtly. 'This is Hollywood.' 'This isn't Hollywood.' It's like, 'No, this is actually all Hollywood.' People are just framing them differently.

I've always said that the greatest racism in Hollywood has to do with what color ink you produce: Black or red.

Studio chief Winfield Sheehan wanted me to remain a little girl. If I lost my innocence, he said, it would show in my eyes.

The war for the Internet has begun. Hollywood is in control of politics. The government is killing innovation.

If Hollywood can make films on insects and make big money, why can't we make films on Punjabi culture?

There's no training for the business, no credentials necessary to enter... It's all about entrepreneurs, innate street intelligence, and instincts. It's a business which encourages people with dreams. That's the essence of Hollywood.