#holly

It's a great challenge to come from little New Zealand and beat the odds in Hollywood. ↗

— Martin Henderson

#challenge #come #great #hollywood #little

I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios. ↗

— Skitch Henderson

#big studios #demise #hollywood #house #i

This is ridiculous, I mean, wholly ridiculous. It never did any child any harm to have something that was a tiny bit above them anyway, and I claim that anyone who can follow Doctor Who can follow absolutely anything. ↗

— Diana Wynne Jones

#absolutely #any #anyone #anything #anyway

When I realized that you can't necessarily be cast in a really great part living in Austin, even when Hollywood comes to town, I got a demo reel together and headed out west. ↗

— John Hawkes

#cast #comes #demo #even #got

People go to the movies instead of moving. Hollywood characters are supposed to have all the adventures for everybody in America, while everybody in America sits in a dark room and watches them have them. ↗

— Tennessee Williams

#adventure #audience #hollywood #movement #movies

Stupid. Stupid. Foaly, we are both imbeciles. I don't expect lateral thinking from the LEP, but from you..." ... "What is it?" [Holly] asked, afraid of the answer, which must surely be terrible. "Yeah," agreed Foaly, who always had time to feel insulted. "Why am I an imbecile? ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#foaly #holly #humor #humor

One of the common themes you will read in interview after interview is the call to keep fighting for your vision. This is a message to women directors, producers, writers—anyone who wants to work in the business. Your voice counts. Your vision matters. ↗

— Melissa Silverstein

#director #directors #documentaries #feminism #film

I could not take one more minute of trying to convince the people of Los Angeles that a workers’ revolution and a complete overhaul of society was a tiny bit more exciting than getting a bit role in a Burger King commercial ↗

— Susie Bright

#los-angeles #radicalism #revolution #death

It's said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies - because you never know when you'll have to work with them. ↗

— Lana Turner

#always #because #forgive #hollywood #know

Now we really like to put people in boxes. As men, we do it because we don't understand characters that aren't ourselves and we aren't willing to put ourselves in the skin of those characters and women, I think, terrify us. We tend not to write women as human beings. It's cartoons we're making now. And that's a shame. ↗

— Paul Haggis

#hollywood #media #representation #women #women-and-men