"In Hollywood, no one knows anything."
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"Some say Hollywood movies that are made about boxing are just metaphors for other things, I think I've made one that's actually about boxing and not a metaphor."
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"Conditions in the [movie] industry somehow propose the paradox: "We brought you here for your individuality but while you're here we insist that you do everything to conceal it."
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"The classy gangster is a Hollywood invention."
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"It's actually great to shoot far away from Hollywood because we don't have the distractions of the parties and premieres and all that. And, of course, you can save money - there are no good shoe stores."
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"I lived in Hollywood and, ironically, I didn't know you could just go out and get an agent and go on auditions and try and become an actor, I thought it was like a Masonic thing, like a blood line you had to belong to – until I was 13. Then I realised what you had to do. It is the one thing I know I want to do for the rest of my life."
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"It's good to experience Hollywood in short bursts, I guess. Little snippets. I don't think I can handle being here all the time, it's pretty nutty."
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"There's something uniquely aggravating about the smugness of liberal Hollywood."
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"Everybody just asks me 'Are you going to make Hollywood movies now?' First, I don't know. Second, I never dreamed about that; I just dreamed about making movies with Tarantino. So if I can make movies with a lot of amazing directors - yes."
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"I was shy for several years in my early days in Hollywood until I figured out that no one really gave a damn if I was shy or not, and I got over my shyness."
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"The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication."
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"I sure lost my musical direction in Hollywood. My songs were the same conveyer belt mass production, just like most of my movies were."
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"I always took it for granted that there would be life after Hollywood."
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"But I thought, I've just got to check out Hollywood, so I sent out pictures and resumes."
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"Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse."
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"I'm always being accused of being a Hollywood Republican, but I'm not! I have just as many Democratic ideas as Republican ones. If they could build three fewer bombs every month and give the money to foster care, that would be great."
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"I'm sure there are people in Hollywood, whose main drive in film is to make money, who will feel that any use of the word hijacking or any reference to anything violent or remotely associated with the terrible tragedy that occurred will lose customers for them. And that will be the only criterion that will matter and so they'll force the minions that work for them to remove these things from their movies, or not make movies about that subject."
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"I am an invisible man. No, I am not a spook like those who haunted Edgar Allan Poe; nor am I one of your Hollywood-movie ectoplasms."
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"In Hollywood, as I've often said, if you don't sing or dance, you end up as an after-dinner speaker."
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"The way to be successful in Hollywood is to be as obnoxious as the next guy."
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