Careers Quote by James Mercer

Writers who go to Hollywood still follow the classic pattern: either you get disgusted by 'them' and you leave or you want the money…

— Pauline Kael

There are so many directors, young and old, around - all doing their thing and struggling.

— Noma Dumezweni

There's something with actors in their 40s, I don't know - there's this tendency with these guys, either they're not where they wanted to…

— Kurt Voss

People get devalued in Hollywood when they age, despite all their efforts to stay relevant and beautiful and young. They can't get jobs anymore.

— David LaChapelle

Well, 45-odd years of doing it, so we all pile up the things we like about directors and the things we don't like about…

— Dustin Hoffman

I got older. The industry now-and it's been this way for a while- is largely about young people, sometimes very young people. Kids in…

— Alec Baldwin

All directors are control freaks and very obsessive. I get the feeling that directors as kids, they all have had a childhood with not…

— Stellan Skarsgard

If you’ve ever wondered why some writers who, in your humble opinion, don’t write as well as you do yet are rich and famous…

— Larry Brooks

It's a lot easier to make a living as a writer in Hollywood than it was probably 10 years ago, though there's still just…

— Ed Brubaker

Film buffs who don't live in Hollywood have a fantasy about what it's like to be a director. Movies and the people who make…

— John Carpenter

The thing with the film industry is if you become popular in one kind of role, you keep getting cast in the same thing.

— Abhishek Banerjee

A lot of things people are upset about or frustrated by with Hollywood stem from the fact that the same old narrative is being…

— Quinta Brunson