Hollywood Quotes - Page 14

• If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.

  Irving Thalberg

  Writing, Knowing, People

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• Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  America, Planets

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• Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies

  Michel Hazanavicius

  French Movies, Hollywood Movies

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• To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about.

  Matt Taibbi

  Evil, Betrayed, Agents

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• Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

  Michael Medved

  Hero, Symbols, Visible

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• Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me. I use direct sound, mono not stereo. Just direct sound, so for every shot there are only two sources. Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

  Bruno Dumont

  Depressing, Hollywood Films, Two

  "French Director Bruno Dumont on Outside Satan: 'No God but Cinema'". Interview with Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  C. S. Forester

  England, Emotion, Corny

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• I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.

  Ryan Tedder

  Song, Sunset, Thinking

  "OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder on Hitmaking, Writer's Block and the Song That Got Away (Q&A)" by Michele Amabile Angermiller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 06, 2013.

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• I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

  Holly Johnson

  Rocks, Musician, Sound

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• I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

  J. J. Johnson

  Hollywood Films, Community, Lucky

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• Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.

  Jack Valenti

  Spring, Dna

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• And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

  Skitch Henderson

  Easter, Television, Coast

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• I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

  Skitch Henderson

  House, Demise, Orchestra

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• There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

  Matt Stone

  Smugness, Aggravating

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

  Beeban Kidron

  Kings, Stories, Diets

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• You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

  Priscilla Presley

  Mother, Father, Dating

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• The divorce was rough on all of us. I don't blame Hollywood for my family's problems. But having all of it reported in the press made it more of an ordeal.

  Kieran Culkin

  Divorce, Blame, Problem

  "The Young And `The Mighty' / Youthful stars Culkin and Henson are veterans of showbiz". Interview with Ruthe Stein, www.sfgate.com. October 11, 1998.

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• I think people in Hollywood are afraid of sentiment because they think audiences will reject it.

  Leonard Maltin

  Thinking, People, Sentimental

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• 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

  Real, Office, Devil

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• Hollywood has treated me well.

  Paz Vega

  Wells, Treated

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• 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

  Spain, Pieces, West

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• Given the choice of Hollywood or poking steel pins in my eyes, I'd prefer steel pins.

  Mike Leigh

  Eye, Choices, Steel

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• A few nights ago I went to a Hollywood screening of a small independent film made by Sally Kirkland, an old friend of mine who also did terrific job acting in it. There were other actors in it and they were all terrific.

  Nick Mancuso

  Jobs, Independent, Night

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• The farm was a great place to grow up, but I preferred the Hollywood Hills. My aunt looked like Lucille Ball and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.

  Sandra Lerner

  Beautiful, Growing Up, Aunt

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• The flood will lift the ghosts from the Hollywood lawn cemetery and they will disappear like ether in the now dead air. All the names will be erased from the billboards and the theatres and the piers and the magazines and the monuments. You live by myths of immortality, and your myths are not safe.

  Robert Montgomery

  Air, Names, Theatre

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