Because I was a kid from north of England, the only films I had access to was not alternative cinema, which in… — Ridley Scott Copy Share Image
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
I've seen so many young filmmakers - even professional filmmakers who get a Hollywood deal - they don't quite know where to… — George A. Romero Copy Share Image
When you are younger and you have to take hold of that career before it disappears, it's difficult to maintain any kind… — Amanda Seyfried Copy Share Image
I was just excited by the whole prospect of working in a television series in Hollywood. I had never anticipated that as… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich,… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
I like to work and there's no movies for actors, period, especially black actors. When white actors are like, 'Man, there's no… — Marlon Wayans Copy Share Image
I came out with my five-piece group and opened at Billy Burke's Swing Oar. This was when Hollywood was really jumpin'. This… — Scatman Crothers Copy Share Image
Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in… — Isaiah Washington Copy Share Image
“Watching Paris is Burning, I began to think that the many yuppie-looking, straight -acting, pushy, predominantly white folks in the audience were… — bell hooks Copy Share Image
The factors that laid low so whooping and puissant an empire as the old Hollywood are many. I can think of a… — Ben Hecht Copy Share Image
If you walk out of a movie that's meant to be about race in our country, and you're feeling good and happy,… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
Eventually I got asked to be in a Michael J. Fox sitcom called High School U.S.A. I didn’t think it was funny… — Joel Hodgson Copy Share Image
I want to submit to you tonight that this country is not gospel-hardened; it is gospel-ignorant because most of its preachers are.… — Paul Washer Copy Share Image
They are just really stupid people in Hollywood. You write them a script, and they say they love it, they absolutely love… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
But you know, I'm very conscious that people criticize Hollywood. Yet we've created a form, the Western, that can be understood in… — John Wayne Copy Share Image
I think it's nice to get a break from all of the big Hollywood comic book action-movies and see something that's relatable… — Aubrey Plaza Copy Share Image
I inherited the voice from my father, who was a minister. He taught me to speak clearly from babyhood, and probably it… — Agnes Moorehead Copy Share Image
My friend Liam Neeson has managed to carve out a great place in the industry for himself and is still doing action… — Frank Grillo Copy Share Image
When I tried to get 'Stargate' made, I took it to every studio in Hollywood and every studio said, 'Sci-fi is dead.… — Dean Devlin Copy Share Image
Hollywood's schizophrenia over guns is matched only by their attitude toward taxes. Ever wonder why they film in Vancouver so often? It… — Greg Gutfeld Copy Share Image
It's so great in Hollywood now. You have people past 40 sitting and talking about serious stuff, writing and making movies and… — Nathan Fillion Copy Share Image
I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be… — Kim Novak Copy Share Image
I find often in Hollywood there are many people who play themselves really beautifully. And certain parts are not that dissimilar from… — Carla Gugino Copy Share Image
I have done a lot of work in Hollywood myself. I worked in television for roughly 10 years, from the mid-'80s to… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
I've always wanted to work with Blair, and finally the timing was right. I have a tremendous amount of respect for him.… — Tyler Perry Copy Share Image
History tends to take the simplest possible view. As soon as you start to scratch the surface of any historical event, it… — Christopher McQuarrie Copy Share Image
We live in a modest system, a galaxy called the Milky Way. If we named every star in the Milky Way and… — John Rhys-Davies Copy Share Image
The saddest and strangest part of Hollywood to me is the fact that millions of dollars are spent on developing works that… — Jennifer Westfeldt Copy Share Image
“The American renaissance begins with the unified revolutionary act of turning off and smashing the television, rejecting Hollywood on all fronts and… — James Scott, Senior Fellow, The Center for Cyber Influence Operations Studies (CCIOS Copy Share Image
Because I direct films, I have to live in a major English-speaking production center. That narrows it down to three places: Los… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
You know, most people, they want to go to Hollywood. They want to be a star. They want to be a rock… — Eddie Van Halen Copy Share Image
Commuting from New York to Hollywood to do this show gets more interesting every week. Before I used to think the country… — Bill Cullen Copy Share Image
You get so afraid of failure and so afraid of losing and so afraid of not being the best that it's not… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I really love 'Spirited Away,' it's just got an amazingly haunting atmosphere, and the technique is so non-Hollywood CGI - it's really… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
Strictly Business' is about a young black man who is learning about himself, and that applies to a lot of young black… — Tommy Davidson Copy Share Image
Every time I've made a plan in my Hollywood acting career, something else has happened, so I've gotten out of the habit… — Dermot Mulroney Copy Share Image
I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and… — Ken Burns Copy Share Image
I'm quite lucky in that at certain angles I look all right, and at others I don't look so good, which enables… — Tom Riley Copy Share Image
On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the… — Kid Rock Copy Share Image
