#hollywood

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking. ↗

#beginning #end #filmmaking #good #hollywood

Look, Hollywood's a mecca, but it's not the final answer. You pick up a camera anyplace in the world, you can make a movie. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#anyplace #camera #final #final answer #hollywood

You know, Hollywood sometimes tends to patronize the interior of the United States. As Horton Foote used to say, the great Texas playwright, that a lot of people from New York don't know what goes on beyond the South Jersey Shore. ↗

— Robert Duvall

#goes #great #hollywood #horton #interior

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#comedy #drop #gate #hit #hollywood

And the inner dynamics of Hollywood are like politics. Say you give a script to a group of executives - they all sit around, afraid to voice an opinion, saying nothing, waiting to know what the consensus is. Just like focus groups, opinion polls or a cabinet. ↗

— Joe Eszterhas

#around #cabinet #consensus #dynamics #executives

Being in Hollywood is like being in the Christian right these days. ↗

— Rupert Everett

#christian #christian right #days #hollywood #like

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems. ↗

— Stan Brakhage

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I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

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Hollywood studio executives don't recognize the value of female performers as much as male performers. ↗