Books Quote by Fletcher Knebel

When any young director gets hired by a studio to do a $125 million film based on a preexisting piece of intellectual property, they're…

— Neill Blomkamp

The Hollywood process is like trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it.

— Douglas Adams

The film project has been “twenty years of constipation,” and he likens the Hollywood process to “trying to grill a steak by having a…

— Douglas Adams

This is worse than Hollywood, he thought. A girl comes in with a pork chop and I write a song for her.

— Eva Ibbotson

When you're a failure in Hollywood, that's like starving to death outside a banquet hall, with smells of filet mignon driving you crazy.

— Marilyn Monroe

Being a writer in Hollywood is like going to Hitler's Eagle Nest with a great idea for a bar mitzvah.

— David Mamet

“I say making movies is like eating a sandwich of shit. Sometimes you get more bread, sometimes less bread, but you always get shit."…

— Guillermo del Toro

Anyone who has been in this town long enough has their own 'True Hollywood story.'

— Dante Basco

I realize now that it is a serious business requiring honest, hard work. The first time Hollywood was served up to me on a…

— Sterling Hayden

...In the past, as now, [Hollywood] was a stamping ground for tastelessness, violence, and hyperbole, but once upon a time it turned out a…

— Anita Loos

You should realize that the community with which you deal is not the one of 42nd Street and Broadway, or Hollywood and Vine. These…

— Fulton J Sheen

It's rare in Hollywood to get the chance to work on something that you actually care about. The tragedy of the place is all…

— Stephen Gaghan