Audience Quote by Leonard Maltin

Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's…

— Kyra Sedgwick

There was a part of me that felt afraid of people in Hollywood going: '**** Hollywood with their total lack of originality!'.

— Colin Farrell

I think that when audiences find a movie that they don't expect to like, it adds great word of mouth.

— Neal H. Moritz

Now because the film industry is what it is, if people are expecting a certain film genre and they're not getting it, there are…

— Steven Knight

There's always a backlash in everything that you do, but it's not going to stop or change anything. And it's not only an issue…

— Jennifer Lawrence

To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've learned not…

— Joel Edgerton

I don't think a lot of people - when they associate you with Hollywood, they don't want to think of you as normal. They…

— Eva Marie Saint

I don't think Hollywood per se is supposed to be taken seriously, otherwise, dear Lord, that would be frightening.

— Brittany Murphy

Hollywood works continually to keep its standard of contempt for the audience.

— Muriel Rukeyser

People can try to minimize what comes out of Hollywood and say, 'Oh, it's just entertainment,' but it has a tremendous effect on the…

— John MacArthur

One can never anticipate how audiences will respond. One of the lessons that I've learned over the years is to that no matter what…

— Delroy Lindo

Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point.

— Richard Linklater