quotations about Hollywood
The Player is not a truthful indictment of Hollywood. It's much uglier than I portrayed it, but nobody would've been interested if I'd shown just how sadistic, cruel and self-orientated it is.
ROBERT ALTMAN
interview, Total Film: The Modern Guide to Movies, Mar. 15, 2004
Welcome to Hollywood! What's your dream? Everybody comes here; this is Hollywood, land of dreams. Some dreams come true, some don't; but keep on dreamin' -- this is Hollywood.
J. F. LAWTON
Pretty Woman
The most famous symbol of Hollywood is the literal Hollywood sign, perched on the Hollywood hills. Its history--from advertisement for the subdivision Hollywoodland to icon for the movie industry, from optimistic newness to disrepair to renewal at the hands of the Chamber of Commerce--seems especially appropriate to Hollywood's self-construction.... Like the movies themselves, the Hollywood sign is essentially an advertisement for itself.
CHRISTOPHER AMES
Movies About the Movies: Hollywood Reflected
Hollywood has always been a cage ... a cage to catch our dreams.
JOHN HUSTON
London Times, Dec. 27, 1987
Every country gets the circus it deserves. Spain gets bullfights. Italy the Church. America Hollywood.
ERICA JONG
attributed, Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations
An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.
FRED ALLEN
attributed, The Mammoth Book of Zingers
Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.
ALLY SHEEDY
attributed, The Second Century of Cinema
Everybody steals from everybody, that's Hollywood.
JON FAVREAU
Swingers
Hollywood is too busy trying to make old formulas hit the jackpot again to see the future. Hollywood is yesterday, forever catching up with what's happening today.
VITO RUSSO
attributed, goodreads
The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy.
SYLVESTER STALLONE
attributed, Great Hollywood Wit
Hollywood seems to succumb to fads. Well, action films do well. Give me violence. Give me a scene where there's a couple of car chases or shooting and stuff like that. They're forgetting the fact that there's a basic structure to a story that is essential to making it really broad and appealing.
CLINT EASTWOOD
Psychology Today, Jan. 1, 1993
In Hollywood if you don't have a shrink, people think you're crazy.
JOHNNY CARSON
The Tonight Show
There's nothing the matter with Hollywood that a good earthquake couldn't cure.
MOSS HART
The Mammoth Book of Zingers, Quips, and One-liners
In Hollywood a marriage is a success if it outlasts milk.
RITA RUDNER
stand-up routine
People in Hollywood are not showmen, they're maintenance men, pandering to what they think their audiences want.
TERRY GILLIAM
attributed, IMDB profile
Hollywood is not a monolithic culture of antitraditional values. All too often Christians and other religious people create a straw man caricature of Hollywood as a conspiracy of malevolent personalities attacking tradition. Yes, there are plenty of those kind of people in the business. But there are also plenty of others who are different. There are also those who simply want to make and sell whatever makes money, and there are those who believe in creating uplifting entertainment as they see it. The problem is that Hollywood is like any other subculture: it may follow trends and have certain tendencies, but it is a wildly diverse place and full of complexities and people who do not fit the stereotypes.
BRIAN GODAWA
Hollywood Worldviews: Watching Films with Wisdom & Discernment
I don't have any illusions that Hollywood is a place of integrity.
ADRIEN BRODY
The Guardian, February 8, 2009