Desire Quote by Melvin Van Peebles Download Open image “Hollywood desires money but they could not stand the political content.” — Melvin Van Peebles ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.6 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Desire Desires Money Happiness Hollywood Hollywood Desires Money Political Political Content
If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money --… — Ben Affleck Copy Share Image
Let me make something clear: There are very few things Hollywood is right about. This is a very corrupt, elitist industry that breeds favoritism… — Lexi Alexander Copy Share Image
To many Congressmen and Senators right now, there's a ceaseless antagonism toward Hollywood because politically, it is high-reward and low-risk. So when you can't… — Jack Valenti Copy Share Image
Hollywood people are filled with guilt: liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much… — Drew Carey Copy Share Image
Nothing communicates with the people who make real decisions in Hollywood like spending your own money and showing that you can make profitable films. — Philip Anschutz Copy Share Image
The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema. — Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu Copy Share Image
Hollywood is Hollywood. It'll never change, although it does go through its own transformations. I think that there's this obsessiveness with making money, which… — Nicolas Winding Refn Copy Share Image
It's the nature of Hollywood that there are the people in power and the people who tell them what they want them to hear. — John Lasseter Copy Share Image
I went to a number of schools when I was a kid on the south side of Chicago. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Music or sound in a film is a character as important as another character. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I'm not a normal director. You can't look at me that way. What's kept me alive is my technical skill at doing other things. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Don't ask me something if you don't want to know. Because I will tell you. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I was a trader for a company. That's different from the brokers who we sort of disdain as sort of just errand boys. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
After 'Don't Play Us Cheap,' I got very busy with theater and Wall Street. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
The studios didn't really take independent films seriously, till 'Sweetback' was such a financial success. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
Whitey is uptight about offending blacks without really knowing what offends blacks. — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I said to my kids, 'Learn the business of America if you want to be an artist in America. The rest of that stuff,… — Melvin Van Peebles Copy Share Image
I put myself in the student's place and remember the frustrations, doubts, determination, and desires I felt when I was going through the initial… — Ted Martinez Copy Share Image
I want the municipality to be a helping hand to the man with a desire of sympathy, to help the fallen when it is… — John Burns Copy Share Image
Ye youths and virgins, when your generous blood Has drunk the warmth of fifteen summers, now The loves invite; now to new rapture wakes… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
If there is any period one would desire to be born in, is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
He caught her, she fell, he caught her in his arms, he held her tightly unconscious of what he was doing. He held her… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit. My three [great teachers] did not… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In discovering books, you became free to explore the full range of human motives, desires, secrets, and lies. All my life, people have scolded… — Betsy Lerner Copy Share Image