Quotes on Hollywood

In Hollywood, way too often, the goal for actresses is to get cast in roles as the wife or the mother or a relationship that somehow orbits around the man, whereas 'Sex And The City' had these characters where the women had their own independent stories.

The power of story and the power of a well-crafted film or television show is really all you need to speak to people. I think Hollywood is sort of catching up to that.

I was growing up and maturing at a time where we were invisible, man. We were nowhere except negative. Any time you saw a Latin person in Hollywood or on TV, they were some sort of negative character.

Creativity does not stop just because you're over 50. Hollywood spits female actresses out after age 29, but you don't stop creating. If anything, you become wiser and even better.

The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention.

I think the bottom of the totem pole is African-American women, or women of colour. I think they get the least opportunities in Hollywood.

If there's specific resistance to women making movies, I just choose to ignore that as an obstacle for two reasons: I can't change my gender, and I refuse to stop making movies.

The execs don't care what color you are. They care about how much money you make. Hollywood is not really black or white. It's green.

This is hilarious. First, people say how so many actresses in Hollywood look anorexic, and now they are criticizing me for looking normal. Body images are too often adopted by young girls and women - thanks to what they are constantly being shown as being attractive.

This is a time when we need to smile more and Hollywood movies are supposed to do that for people in difficult times.

Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.

Oscar and I have something in common. Oscar first came to Hollywood scene in 1928. So did I. We're both a little weather-beaten, but we're still here and plan to be around for a whole lot longer.

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

In Hollywood there's a great openness, almost a voracious appetite for new people. In England there's a great suspicion of the new. In cultural terms, that can be a good thing, but when you're trying to break into the film industry, it's definitely a bad thing.

I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.

Hollywood money isn't money. It's congealed snow, melts in your hand, and there you are.

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

The film project has been “twenty years of constipation,” and he likens the Hollywood process to “trying to grill a steak by having a succession of people coming into the room and breathing on it.”

I intend to be the greatest golfer in the world, the finest film producer in Hollywood, the greatest pilot in the world, and the richest man in the world.

I hate a man who always says yes to me. When I say no I like a man who also says no.

Hollywood, as everyone knows, glamorizes physical courage. . . . if I had to define courage myself, I wouldn't say it's about shooting people. I'd say it's the quality that stimulates people, that enables them to move ahead and look beyond themselves.