"There's something about the authenticity that Hollywood is missing when it comes to urban culture."
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"I hope that in some way that I can be some sort of beacon of hope, especially because I am not the typical Hollywood beauty."
"Isn't Hollywood a dump-in the human sense of the word. A hideous town, pointed up by the insulting gardens of its rich, full of the human spirit at a new low of debasement."
"If I have to produce movies, direct movies, whatever to change the way Hollywood treats older women, I'll do it. If I have to bend the rules, I will. If I have to break them, I will."
"I figured, when I make a movie, especially earlier in my career, one thing I was going to make sure was that the movie doesn't cost a lot and that it has potential to make a lot of money. That's how you get respect in Hollywood."
"Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation."
"I can think of nothing that an audience won't understand. The only problem is to interest them; once they are interested, they understand anything in the world."
"In Hollywood, you're never any better than your last picture."
"Hollywood was fine with fakes, but it was most definitely not okay with frauds."
"Hollywood's got its own particular environment."
"I've dodged all sorts of bullets in Hollywood to get my movies made. I'm tough."
"In Hollywood a girl's virtue is much less important than her hairdo."
"Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons."
"Then when I got to Hollywood, the first musical I did was Festival in 1977."
"The Hollywood tradition I like best is called sucking up to the stars."
"Later on they send me to Hollywood. To make movies. It was all new to me. I was only 21 years old."
"I'd rather be thought as an international actress rather than a French one. Because I don't know what's coming up for me, my ambition is not to be typecast. So I'm working on my English accent, as well as my American one. I don't want to be like 'Okay, I'm French, and I want to succeed in Hollywood!'"
"All television ever did was shrink the demand for ordinary movies. The demand for extraordinary movies increased. If any one thing is wrong with the movie industry today, it is the unrelenting effort to astonish."
"And one thing Hollywood does well is sequels."
"Through failure, I found different ways to reverse my problems and get into the mainstream of Hollywood."