#holly

Whatever God gave you, you have to work that to your best ability - especially out here in Hollywood, the land of beautiful people. ↗

— Michael Clarke Duncan

#beautiful #beautiful people #best #especially #gave

If a movie isn't a hit right out of the gate, they drop it. Which means that the whole mainstream Hollywood product has been skewed toward violence and vulgar teen comedy. ↗

— Roger Ebert

#comedy #drop #gate #hit #hollywood

Now why should the cinema follow the forms of theater and painting rather than the methodology of language, which allows wholly new concepts of ideas to arise from the combination of two concrete denotations of two concrete objects? ↗

— Sergei Eisenstein

#arise #cinema #combination #concepts #concrete

Exploitation is a harsh word, I know that, but on a certain level, to me that is the central Hollywood story. ↗

— Bret Easton Ellis

#certain #certain level #exploitation #harsh #hollywood

In Hollywood, you play a mom, and the next thing you know, you're on 'The Golden Girls.' They age you so fast. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#fast #golden #hollywood #know #mom

I came to Hollywood and nobody knew me. I was on a coupla TV shows. ↗

— Peter Falk

#coupla #hollywood #i #i came #knew

I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen. ↗

— Jerry Falwell

#hollywood #i #i see #know #scientologist

The black community in Hollywood is very small and close-knit. Everyone has a common goal: to make a two-hour movie in 30 days. ↗

— Gabrielle Union

#black community #common #common goal #community #days

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films. ↗

— Ken Burns

#documentary #drama #feel #films #hollywood

Either be wholly slaves or wholly free. ↗

— John Dryden

#free #slaves #wholly