It's only in relatively recent years that Hollywood became the playground of multinational corporations which regard movies and TV shows as a minor irritant to their overall activity. — Peter Bart
The studios will go wherever they smell money. It's like sharks to the blood. — Don Bluth
Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world. — Lionel Barrymore
Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. — Robert Duvall
That's all gone, now, the old, Hollywood. — Warren Beatty
Hollywood is in control of politics and has imported their action-filled movie scripts into the real world. — Kim Dotcom
Once you work with a studio on a film, the studio is sort of like this enormous clam that just opens, takes everything and then closes, and no one enters again. They own it all. — Don Bluth
We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new. — Michael Eisner
Hollywood amuses me. Holier-than-thou for the public and unholier-than-the-devil in reality — Grace Kelly
Hollywood hasn't changed. It is the most racist, anti-Indian institution in the world. — Sayings
Old Hollywood is just like a desert water in Africa. Hang around long enough and every kind of animal in the world will drift in for refreshments. — Will Rogers
Hollywood is controlled by homosexual Jewish men who expect favors in return for sexual activity. — John Travolta
Hollywood gives a young girl the aura of one giant, self-contained orgy farm, its inhabitants dedicated to crawling into every pair of pants they can find. — Veronica Lake
Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars. — Fred A. Allen
There was more good acting at Hollywood parties than ever appeared on the screen. — Bette Davis
The movie business has always been like the wild-catting oil business. Everyone wants a gusher. — Michael Eisner
At times I think I actually hate Hollywood. I have many acquaintances there, but few friends. — Grace Kelly
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. — Lucille Ball
Washington is a Hollywood for ugly people. Hollywood is a Washington for the simpleminded. — John McCain
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems. — Stan Brakhage
I'm impressed with the people from Chicago. Hollywood is hype, New York is talk, Chicago is work. — Michael Douglas
The big-budget blockbuster is becoming one of the most dependable forms of filmmaking. — Peter Jackson
Universal Studios Quotes
In L.A., I live right across from Universal Studios. — Kodi Smit-McPhee
I learned to cross the threshold of my studio with reverence, as though I were entering a shrine set apart for me to become co-creator with the Universal Thinker of all things. — Walter Russell
There's something about the Oscar that gives you sort of stripes where you feel you can dare to walk into a studio like Universal and say, "Hey guys, how about an idea of me playing the wolf man?" — Benicio Del Toro
Growing up, I would watch a movie on video and would go to the back of the VHS and locate the address for Universal Pictures or MGM or whatever. I'd write to the studios asking them if I could be in a movie. They never wrote me back. — Garrett Hedlund
My grandmother was an actress too. In the thirties and forties she was under contract with Universal Studios. Crazy credits, lots of them. My dad was also under contract with Universal Studios. And my first film was shot on the same stage they both worked on at Universal. — Chris Pine
Florida has tons of entertainment opportunities because Walt Disney World and Universal Studios are there. — Kevin Richardson
I feel like I live in my own little world, to be honest. I mean, I love my record, but I don't feel tied to it. I sort of created my own little universe in the studio, and that's why all of those musicians who made a living in the Nashville music scene loved coming over to my place so much. — Dan Auerbach
Whether a studio partner is 50/50 with us, or we do 100%, or we do 75% or 90% and for the most part they just distribute, whether that's Warner Brothers or now Universal, it's always a unique situation. Every movie is almost like a start up company. — Thomas Tull
Musicals are so expensive to put on the stage that you have to have the backing of a corporate, you have to have Universal Studios or Disney or somebody to put in the money. — Stephen Sondheim
Not only were the minds of artists formed by the university; in the same mold were formed those of the art historians, the critics, the curators, and the collectors by whom their work was evaluated. With the rise of Conceptual art, the classroom announced its final triumph over the studio. — Harold Rosenberg
Hollywood Quotes
There is no question in my mind that Zionists, these Jewish radicals that they dominate Hollywood, nobody argues about the show you in the Los Angeles Times article by Joel Stein bragging about it. — David Duke
Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn. — Clark Gable
Too many so-called leaders of the movement have been made into celebrities and their revolutionary fervor destroyed by mass media. They become Hollywood objects and lose identification with the real issues. The task is to transform society; only the people can do that — Huey Newton
My basic mistake in 'The World's Greatest Lover' was that I made the leading character a neurotic kook and sent him to Hollywood. I should have made him a perfectly normal, sane, ordinary person, and sent him to Hollywood. The audience identifies with the lead character. — Gene Wilder
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with each of them in that order. Crude, but true. — Hedy Lamarr
Don't forget I'm just a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her. — Julia Roberts
I think Hollywood, I think America in general, they love redemption stories. — Logan Paul
If I fail, the film industry writes me off as another statistic. If I succeed, they pay me a million bucks to fly out to Hollywood and fart. — George A. Romero
Hollywood Movies Quotes
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. — Yahoo Serious
Come on, guys, I am a computer nerd. I love Hollywood and movies. My whole life is like a movie. — Kim Dotcom
I'm going to make him an offer he can't refuse. — Marlon Brando
Great men are not born great, they grow great . . . — Mario Puzo
I prefer to do movies, just for the simple fact that in TV, there’s not much of a guarantee. They can pull the plug on you. — Vivica Fox
They may take our lives, but they'll never take our freedom! — Mel Gibson
Critics are usually kinder to cheaper movies than to those they perceive to be big Hollywood releases. They cut you a lot more slack if you spend less money, which makes no sense. — Ethan Coen
Films are getting expensive by the day. They are making more money by the day. — Rakesh Jhunjhunwala
I am a big movie buff. So, I make sure I watch two-three movies a week, not many because I don’t want to get addicted. — Smriti Mandhana
Hollywood Films Quotes
I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries. — Leonard Maltin
I like the sensibility of Australian film a lot and the crews are fantastic. Great characters, wonderful people and no line between - I think in Hollywood they have this line between actors and crew a lot, and that just didn't exist, which I really appreciated. — Barbara Hershey
Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do. — Anthony Anderson
Keep your friends close, but your enemies closer. — Mario Puzo
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film. — Rainer W. Fassbinder
The best thing I can think of would be to create a union between something as beautiful and powerful and wonderful as Hollywood films and a criticism of the status quo. That's my dream, to make such a German film. — Rainer Werner Fassbinder
The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend. — Katharine Hepburn
Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah. — David Mamet
Who better than an Irishman can understand the Indians, while still being stirred by tales of the US cavalry? — John Ford
West Hollywood Quotes
I bought a little hideaway up north, so I'll ship my motorcycle up there. It's much less dangerous than West Hollywood. — Johnny Galecki
My mom blames California for me being a lesbian. Everything was fine until you moved out there. That's right, Mom, we have mandatory lesbianism in West Hollywood. The Gay Patrol busted me, and I was given seven business days to add a significant amount of flannel to my wardrobe. — Coley Sohn
In the evening, since I have a lot of friends in theater, we might take in a Deaf West production in North Hollywood, or, since I'm a member of the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, they have screenings that are really great. — Tim DeKay
West Hollywood is predominantly gay, so every man that came into the grocery store was shopping for his boyfriend. — Jeri Ryan
Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular. — Howard Stringer
I cook croquetas, and I eat jamon. I keep my diet 100% Mediterranean and drink my Rioja. In that sense, I have a piece of Spain in West Hollywood. — Paz Vega
At an age when most youngsters are preparing for their GCSEs, I was suddenly a jet-setter, briefly the toast of Hollywood and London's West End. My immature wishes and naive opinions were treated with respect. — Jack Wild
But the West did not last long enough. Its folk myths and heroes became stage properties of Hollywood before the poets had begun to get to work on them. — Christopher Dawson
It felt [at the Allied set] like, "At last, I'm in Hollywood," even though I was in West London. It was like, "This is how a film should be made." It was beautiful. — Steven Knight
I mean, I didn't ever watch 'Gilligan's Island' and think, 'Those people are actors.' I lived in West Virginia. Hollywood just felt like this total other universe. — Jennifer Garner
Old Hollywood Quotes
I had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years. — David Ogden Stiers
Megaupload is not responsible for the piracy problem. It's the old business model of Hollywood that is responsible for it, and they want to keep that model alive at any cost. — Kim Dotcom
Always be a first-rate version of yourself. — Audrey Hepburn
When I was 14 -years-old, I made this PowerPoint presentation, and I invited my parents into my room and gave them popcorn. It was called 'Project Hollywood 2004' and it worked. I moved to L.A. in January of 2004. — Emma Stone
I'll make him an offer he can't refuse. — Mario Puzo
I think a lot of African-American kids don't have fathers to teach them how to dress, so you end up being taught by pictures in magazine and movies. You see cowboys, Indians, old Hollywood films, Cary Grant. It has an effect on you. — Andre Benjamin
There's an old saying in Hollywood: It's not the length of your film, it's how you use it. — Ben Stiller
I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star. — Anna May Wong
I look to the women who epitomize old Hollywood glamour, like Rita Hayworth. She had a way of making sophisticated clothes look sexy without ever seeming sleazy or cheap. — Jennifer Lopez
Fame is no sanctuary from the passing of youth... suicide is much easier and more acceptable in Hollywood than growing old gracefully. — Julie Burchill
Hollywood Life Quotes
This is a terrible place to spend your life in. Nobody in Hollywood is normal. Absolutely nobody. And they have such a vicious attitude toward one another. They say much worse things about each other than outsiders say about them, and nobody has any real friends. — Gary Cooper
The idea of being able to go into Studio 54 alone is what thrilled me the most: again, a man’s life in a woman’s body. — Diane Von Furstenberg
Hollywood is great for entertaining people, it's a wonderful business but it's make-believe, you must remember that. That's one of the most important things to remember and the distinction in your own life, otherwise people get lost in their own fame, and it makes them unhappy. — Dolph Lundgren
I thought it was a cool parallel. Being replaced by the young thing. I know that definitely happens in Hollywood. It's harder to find good roles, and suddenly there's new girls. I'm at that age I've been warned my whole life about. — Winona Ryder
I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is. — Francesca Annis
I try to stay focused on my life and do try not to be brought into the Hollywood fantasy. — Jennifer Connelly
My life is a series of Hollywood orgies and Kabbalah center brunches with the cast of Friends. At least that's what my handlers tell me. I'm actually too valuable to live my own life and spend most of my days in a vegetable crisper to remain fake news anchor fresh. — Jon Stewart
Hollywood is like life, you face it with the sum total of your equipment. — Joan Crawford
Live your life, experience something, and then you're going to have a lot of things to say. But if you hang around in Hollywood, then you're going to say the same thing as everyone else - nothing. — Luc Besson
People are drawn to radical Islam because they feel their traditional ways of life threatened by the influx of KFC and Hollywood movies and the like. — Franklin Foer
Hollywood Stars Quotes
You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock star. That thought never entered any of our minds, the Van Halen family. — Eddie Van Halen
Reverse-engineer Hollywood is how I think of it. All the social-media stars are going in the back door, and everyone's trying to get in the front - there's a line outside. And then everyone's trying to sneak around back, but then there's security, you know? — Jake Paul
Is Hollywood the cruelest city in the world? Well, it can be. New York can be that, too. You can be a Broadway star here one night, and something happens, and out--nobody knows you on the street. They forget you ever lived. It happens in Hollywood, too. — Buster Keaton
Fame doesn't matter. Money doesn't matter. Those things are forever fleeting. I just want to have a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, so that when I'm long gone my great-great-grandchildren can walk up to it and say, "That's my ancestor." That will be my legacy. — Tracy Morgan
It was the only ambition I ever had - not to be a dancer or Hollywood movie star, but to be a housewife in a good marriage. — Doris Day
In 1993 my birthday present was a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame. — Annette Funicello
Ah, stardom! They put your name on a star in the sidewalk on Hollywood Boulevard and you walk down and find a pile of dog manure on it. That tells the whole story, baby. — Lee Marvin
I feel the need... the need for speed. — Tom Cruise
In the 1940s, cigarettes would be shown in classy situations, endorsed by celebrities - real A-list Hollywood stars in America - the ads would make claims about tobacco quality or manufacturing science and, bizarrely, some brands had what almost amounted to health claims. — Peter York
The action star's life is very short. Back in Asia, I can do whatever I want to do. I'm the producer, I'm the director, I can do so many things, but in Hollywood any time I present a script they say: "No, no, no, Rush Hour 3, Rush Hour 4." — Jackie Chan
I would love nothing more than me and my family getting green cards, going to L.A. for a year, sitting down with the big Hollywood studios and coming up with the most advanced and awesome Internet distribution platform for movies. It would make Hollywood more money than cinemas, DVDs, and everything else combined. — Kim Dotcom
I can do everything skinny girls can do, trust me. I honestly think Hollywood is getting real. They're saying, 'Hey this is what a lot of America looks like,' a lot of America doesn't wear a size 2. I think the studios and the media are starting to realize that overweight people want something they can relate to, so let's give it to them. — Nikki Blonsky
Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting. — Lorna Luft
Actions which are conscious expressions of the turn-on, tune-in, drop-out rhythm are religious.The wise person devotes his life exclusively to the religious search - for therein is found the only ecstasy, the only meaning. Anything else is a competitive quarrel over (or Hollywood-love sharing of) studio props. — Timothy Leary
Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands. — David O. Selznick
I started off as a studio pianist in Hollywood. — Skitch Henderson
If this were a [Hollywood] studio film, I wouldn't have pushed my father into a table, I would have beat him up. My father wouldn't have kissed my girlfriend; he would have raped her. — Noah Wyle
I really don't consider myself to be a conventional Hollywood star. I've never really been marketed by the big studios to do mass market box office films. — Laura Dern
I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios. — Skitch Henderson
I think Hollywood is more of a state of mind then a place. There are certainly iconic locations in L.A. but as far as the glitz and glamour of old Hollywood and the studio system, that's all but faded away. — Nicholas Ozeki
In England when you make a movie even the weather is against you. In Hollywood the weatherman gets a shooting schedule from all the major studios and then figures out where he can fit in a little rain without upsetting Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer too much. — Bob Hope
No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there. — Anthony Minghella
Working with David Cronenberg or Darren Aronofsky or even Steven Soderbergh isn't really like a typical Hollywood movie. These are true artists, and have a certain amount of freedom when they work, and they're more like independent filmmakers making their way through big studios. I still don't feel like I've been part of the stereotypical Hollywood system. — Vincent Cassel
I didn't go Hollywood on the outside with flashy cars, upstairs maids and mink covered bathroom fixtures. I went Hollywood on the inside and that's worst of all. I tried to avoid being natural. I lowered my voice. I copied the mannerisms of other stars. I struck poses. I received bad advice - from dramatic coaches, from agents, and from studio executives. I stopped being a human being. I blame myself and I blame Hollywood's star system. — Joan Caulfield
When Shana Alexander interviewed me for Life magazine in 1952, she gave up after 4,000. At one time or another, I've worked for every studio in Hollywood, for almost every director with most of the actors and actresses. — David Sharp
Nowadays the big Hollywood studios only make about three movies a year, and they cost about $200 million each. There's no room for error in that, and not a lot of room, I would think, for free expression. — Robbie Coltraine
It takes a week to do a sitcom in Hollywood. I do a show a day in my studio, three or four shows a week. — Tyler Perry
Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers. — Anna Faris
I try to respect the rules of the silent movies and I tried to make signification to make sense, and also the crew were very good and the fact that we shot in LA in the real Hollywood, studios and houses. We shot in the bed of Mary Pickford, and you cannot be any more accurate than that, so that helped a lot. — Michel Hazanavicius
To be quite honest, I've been very blessed when I've worked with Hollywood. The studios that have purchased my work to be adapted to film have really liked the work and wanted to stay as close as they could to what the book was. — Nicholas Sparks
I have a big box of autographs. I took photographs of me and Marlene Dietrich, me and Ida Lupino. I took pictures of Myrna Loy and Joel McCrea in front of the studios. I loved Hollywood. I have 500 autographs and 500 photographs I took. — Ray Bradbury
I have a tendency to think that that stereotype of American movies and Hollywood movies doesn't exist. Of course you have the studios that have a very hard policy upon their artists, but then I haven't really been doing any real Hollywood movie yet. — Vincent Cassel
There's a trend in Hollywood at the moment where studio executives are coming from more of a marketing background, and that is challenging. I think one of the problems of marketing executives is that they don't understand how films get made and they're a bit nervous. And that is not the most efficient way to be a studio executive. — Tim Bevan
Hollywood is a business and movie studios are only going to do what's going to make money. It's not an altruistic thing. They are blatant grabs for money. Responsible studios want to make quality pictures, but at the same time nobody is going to make quality pictures they know aren't going to make any money. — Paul Feig
New media has made it possible for filmmakers like me to get their message out. No big Hollywood studios are needed anymore to make and release a film. More and more people are watching movies and television online than going to the movie theater because of costs. This freedom gives me the opportunity to create the film I want to be seen and heard. — Robert Greenwald
When I get that question, about diversity, I don't go, "Yeah, well you know they don't pay me." That's not my story. I own six properties; Hollywood has been damn good to me. Now you can ask me, "Have they paid you what you deserve?" That's the question, but you'd have to go to the studios, I don't know. I do the work! — Taraji P. Henson
I want studios that make story-based games to start taking their stories more seriously. And that doesn't mean hiring a big shot writer from Hollywood; it means that story becomes integral to making your game. I don't see how you can achieve that without having an in-house writer that sits next to the designer, helping them make their levels, talking with the engineers about where we can tell the story more dynamically, pushing at technology. — Neil Druckmann
Movie studios, Hollywood studios, by and large are not making the kind of movies that I go to see. — Nicholas Meyer
Hollywood is for-profit, is what Hollywood is. All the studios are owned by big, megacorporations that are the furthest thing from liberal you can possibly imagine. — Adam McKay
The radical rightwing pegs Hollywood as a leftist town, which is completely wrong. There are a lot of actors, writers, and directors who talk a liberal agenda... but all the studio bosses, for as long as there have been studios, have all been as far rightwing as you can possibly imagine. — Paul Haggis
Don't be intimidated by Caesar's Hollywood fake versions of religiosity. If life has a meaning for you beyond the TV-studio game, you are religious! Spell it out! — Timothy Leary
Hollywood changed to become a more marketing-driven Hollywood, where people who are running the studios are more like marketing people, and they need titles. — Alexandre Aja
Hollywood wouldn't suit me. In L.A. it's all about work - studio people have their five minutes with you and they go, 'Oh mah Gahd, I love your movie.' You just feel very self-conscious there. — Eva Green
In fact, most of the work that I have done for the American Hollywood things have not been in Hollywood. The studios are going out in Europe or around the place working. — Ciaran Hinds
The good part of working in TV is it's like being a studio director in old Hollywood and approaching different genres. It's a chance to try out different styles. — Mary Harron
The average development time for a Hollywood movie is nine years. Nine years for a studio film. And a lot of what you do is abstract. — Stephen Gaghan
One of the things you have to understand with The Room, I never approached a studio to produce, because I know no one in Hollywood will produce this. I came to Hollywood and I said "I will produce this movie the way I want it." — Tommy Wiseau
France can compete with the Hollywood studios in terms of animation savoir-faire, but not in terms of box-office figures. France is a small country, and the Americans are the masters of the world - for cinema, it's true. — Michel Ocelot
Once you capitulate to one dictator, does that mean that the next dictator or the next terrorist that says you're not going to make a comedy about - or a film at all about ISIS. All of us in public life have a responsibility right now to speak out and to say, 'No, Sony, you did the wrong thing' and to say to Hollywood, come behind - the other studios should come behind Sony and offer their support. — Ed Royce
I had written three books [Games of Throne], at that point, and each one of them was better than the other. At a certain point, as the books were doing well, I started getting interest from Hollywood, from various producers and studios who were initially interested in doing a feature film. I met with some of those people and I had phone conversations with some of those people, but I didn't see it being done as a feature film. — George R. R. Martin
I was certainly a better actor after my five years in Hollywood. I had learned to be natural - never to exaggerate. I found I could act on the stage in just the same way as I had acted in a studio: using my ordinary voice, eliminating gestures, keeping everything extremely simple. — Walter Huston
Who is writing these screenwriting books? Not actually writing for the studios in Hollywood. These are people that have one or a half of a credit on maybe one movie, or none. So they're all theoretical. — Thomas Lennon
If a script writer had come up with a story resembling what you have just achieved, even the Hollywood studios would have refused. — Lance Armstrong
The normal Hollywood approach is to have a super-charged production company and then go to the studios for distribution and marketing. — Robert Simonds
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