399 Quotes About Hollywood

If you write anything meaningful over there, June, keep it far away from this city. They will turn a story about glue-addicted gypsy children in the Balkans into an animated musical about a tribe of pixie-sized fairy-dust-loving flamenco dancers who live happily ever after with their dancing bears.

I lapsed into my pathetic cut-off period. Often with humans, both good and bad, my senses simply shut off, they get tired, I give up. I am polite. I nod. I pretend to understand because I don’t want anybody to be hurt. That is the one weakness that has lead me into the most trouble. Trying to be kind to others I often get my soul shredded into a kind of spiritual pasta.No matter. My brain shuts off. I listen. I respond. And they are too dumb to know that I am not there.

I suppose it was a mistake to sketch in a background for the movie, in which I described a likely mix of people in a late-Roman settlement, amongst them people from Africa and the Near East. 'You mean they had black people back then!' was actually what my boss exclaimed when he read that. 'Could Lancelot's sidekick be black?

Ah, Hollywood. One day, you and I will play Operation. And I'll be the drunk, mad doctor with the hedge trimmer & you will wear the straps

I was in the land of fakes and frauds and phonies—I felt like saying “Howdy cousin,” to everybody who walked by.

Holivudas dievekļus, tāpat kā visus citus, darināja cilvēki paši… Vai patiesi aktierim nevajadzēja nekāda noslēpumainā “kaut kā”, vai tiešām pietika, ja tiek kaut kā ierāpās Holivudas reklāmas brīnummašīnā vai arī dabūja kādu, kas viņu tur ievilka aiz matiem?

Holivudā dzīvs ir tikai tas, kas piedalās produkcijā; ja kāds atstāja ekrānu, tad, lai cik kādreiz bijis slavens, tas bija beigts un miris un par to neviens vairs neinteresējās

Hollywood było miastem niezliczonych rozstań,kosmosem kruchych miłości i malowanych płócien

I wanted real kids. I didn't want Hollywood kids doing weird accents.