Hollywood Quotes - Page 30

• I make my pictures for what Hollywood spends on lipstick.

  Maya Deren

  Lipstick

  "Arcade Fire's Reflektions of Maya Deren" by Lindsay Zoladz, pitchfork.com. September 11, 2013.

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• When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color ones came out all right. My favorite picture of Marilyn hangs always on the wall in my office. It was taken on the little patio of her Hollywood house.

  Alfred Eisenstaedt

  Wall, Taken, Black And White

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• For me, it’s not about breaking big in Hollywood, but having interesting experiences.

  Aishwarya Rai Bachchan

  Interesting, Bigs

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• If you go to Hollywood, you've already sold out.

  Bruce Campbell

  Sold Out, Ifs

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What's the difference between Hollywood characters and my characters? Mine are real.

  Spike Lee

  Real, Character, Differences

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The zero-sum world [the movie The Social Network] portrayed has nothing in common with the Silicon Valley I know, but I suspect it's a pretty accurate portrayal of the dysfunctional relationships that dominate Hollywood.

  Peter Thiel

  Zero, Valleys, World

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• We cannot escape that Hollywood is in the middle of a wave of technological change. The current angst over all the implications of new entertainment technology is nothing new.

  Michael Eisner

  Technology, Technological Change, Entertainment

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• WHAT is America but beauty queens, millionaires, stupid records and Hollywood?

  Adolf Hitler

  Queens, Stupid, America

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• I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries.

  Leonard Maltin

  Kids, Independent, Class

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• If it isn’t for the writing, we’ve got nothing. Writers are the most important people in Hollywood. And we must never let them know it.

  Irving Thalberg

  Writing, Knowing, People

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• Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet.

  Michel Hazanavicius

  America, Planets

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• Sure, I watched a lot of Hollywood movies. Maybe I've seen more Hollywood movies than French movies

  Michel Hazanavicius

  French Movies, Hollywood Movies

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• To be robbed and betrayed by a fiendish underground conspiracy, or by the earthly agents of Satan, is at least a romantic sort of plight - it suggests at least a grand Hollywood-ready confrontation between good and evil - but to be coldly ripped off over and over again by a bunch of bloodless, second-rate schmoes, schmoes you chose, you elected, is not something anyone will take much pleasure in bragging about.

  Matt Taibbi

  Evil, Betrayed, Agents

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• Michael Moore became an industry hero and the most visible symbol of the Hollywood left.

  Michael Medved

  Hero, Symbols, Visible

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• Hollywood films are alienating to the spectator because they use too much dialogue, too much explication and leave no space for the viewer. They depress me. I use direct sound, mono not stereo. Just direct sound, so for every shot there are only two sources. Sound creates an intimate effect: the sensation to feel the place. It makes the viewer enter. You have the liberty to hear what you want.

  Bruno Dumont

  Depressing, Hollywood Films, Two

  "French Director Bruno Dumont on Outside Satan: 'No God but Cinema'". Interview with Karin Badt, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 21, 2011.

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• Everything was in stark and dreadful contrast with the trivial crises and counterfeit emotions of Hollywood, and I returned to England deeply moved and emotionally worn out.

  C. S. Forester

  England, Emotion, Corny

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• I think the true test of a pop song, for me, and I've talked to a lot of other writers about this, is you take your demo, you pop it in your car and you drive down Sunset Blvd. to Santa Monica, and that's the Hollywood car test.

  Ryan Tedder

  Song, Sunset, Thinking

  "OneRepublic's Ryan Tedder on Hitmaking, Writer's Block and the Song That Got Away (Q&A)" by Michele Amabile Angermiller, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 06, 2013.

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• I wanted to make the kind of records that I heard in the discos that I danced in at that time. Funky, electronic sounds, while the musicians in the band were more rock oriented. This I suppose created the sound we know as Frankie Goes To Hollywood.

  Holly Johnson

  Rocks, Musician, Sound

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• I was lucky enough to occasionally break out of that racist situation that prevails in the Hollywood film production community. But it was racist then and it will always be that way. It will never be otherwise.

  J. J. Johnson

  Hollywood Films, Community, Lucky

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• Washington and Hollywood spring from the same DNA.

  Jack Valenti

  Spring, Dna

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• And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood.

  Skitch Henderson

  Easter, Television, Coast

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• I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios.

  Skitch Henderson

  House, Demise, Orchestra

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• There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood.

  Matt Stone

  Smugness, Aggravating

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• We are increasingly offered a diet [by Hollywood] in which sensation, not story, is king.

  Beeban Kidron

  Kings, Stories, Diets

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• You know, I had my mother and my father convincing me that he would be going back to Hollywood and he'd be back with the actresses and dating them and that he wasn't serious about me at all. So I had him saying one thing to me and my parents telling me something else.

  Priscilla Presley

  Mother, Father, Dating

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