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"Hollywood has its own way of telling stories. I was just telling stories that I was familiar with. And it's what I want to do in the future: I want to take my audio cinema and put it on the screen."
"Hollywood expects you to experiment but on a film that makes money and if you don't make money, you're to blame. Your job is to make money."
"I consider my relationship with acting in Hollywood as sort of a mutual breakup. Through puberty, Hollywood didn't really want me anymore, and I was like, 'Yeah, I don't really want you, either.'"
"It's nice to work with Hollywood because there is never any question of resources put at your disposal to make a film as long as it is the right thing to do."
"In Hollywood, you grow up quick."
"Hollywood dishes out too much praise for small things I won't let it get me, but too much praise can turn a fellow's head if he doesn't watch his step."
"I needed to change my name just to liberate myself and find out I could do it without walking into a Hollywood casting office with the name Coppola."
"There is a misperception, if you will, in critical response or even in Hollywood, that I can only do exaggerated characters. Or what they would call over-the-top performances. Well, this is completely false."
"It's amazing marrying someone who wants nothing to do with Hollywood."
"Making a movie in Hollywood is a bit like playing a board game, where you have to throw a six to start."
"Hollywood no longer depicts reporters in ruthless pursuit of criminals, high and low. Now they are the criminals."
"I've been many kinds of writers in my career: novelist; tele-playwright; short story writer. As a high-school student, I wrote amateur pieces for fanzines, and I've written for Hollywood."
"It's a business of relationships. I mean that's exactly what Hollywood is to me, and I'm lucky enough to work with the same people over and over again."
"Honestly, when I got to Hollywood I was trying to sell my songs."
"I grew up in Hollywood but not in any rich neighborhood."
"I had that perfect deadpan ... for these commercials. Within the first eight months I had eight national TV commercials. I'm a true Hollywood success story - knew no one, had no connections."
"I'm not a Hollywood guy."
"In Hollywood you kind of fail upwards"
"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 in Hollywood."
"Sometimes I'll have a brief window of mini-fame thanks to 'Access Hollywood.' But it only lasts a couple of days, and then no one recognizes me anymore."
