"I will never stop doing stand-up; that's my career, but I will do movies in Hollywood."
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"I ask everyone - white Hollywood and black Hollywood - to get outside of your comfort zone and make friends. That's where they're going to learn from each other, and that's where they're going to make better movies and make Hollywood a better place."
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"Hollywood is full of very liberal people, but it still has an infrastructure that needs to be broken."
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"Fortunately, Hollywood is open to change. It's just a question of how to go about doing it."
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"I don't think it's necessarily 100-percent true. But comic books have infiltrated the mainstream Hollywood in ways that I don't think I ever would have seen or thought imaginable a while ago. But it's also cyclical. You saw it in the '80s when it became kind of huge again. And then it disappears for a while, then it comes back again, then it disappears for a while. So yeah, there's something about that."
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"Going through your late teens and early 20s is not an easy time, especially in Hollywood. So you just learn your lessons, you make your mistakes and you move on."
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"As far as drug abuse and all that - listen, this is Hollywood. I don't know how I was able to avoid it, but I'm lucky that I did."
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"I worked for a publishing company in Hollywood."
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"I'm really aware of the conversations that surround young actresses in Hollywood. I always get myself into a hole with these conversations, and I get weirdly quoted, and I sound militant and like I'm not thankful at all, and I'm so thankful of everything that's happening. But I'm an active observer of the machinations of this world."
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"I live in Hollywood, but you can't make me love Hollywood. I'll never love Hollywood."
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"Take my picture Hollywood. I wanna be STAR"
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"Most, especially the young filmmakers, do not see strength in communal or collective existence. They just think they're going to conquer the world as individuals. There is no world like that. In cinema it's always, even in Hollywood, a collective surge."
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"You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads."
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"My spirit had been broken a bit over the years by my having to work on films I didn't love. Hollywood's a surreal place, and it really is an assault on your spirit."
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"Hollywood, how can it hurt you when it looks so good?"
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"Hollywood was like a mouse being followed by a cat called television."
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"My movies work because not many people in Hollywood are like me."
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"You learn that Hollywood has its own rules, sometimes. And it's tricky, and sometimes you can't see what's coming around the corner."
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"Cool people still have a hard time showing what they got in Hollywood."
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"Hollywood is obsessed with police stories."
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