If you think Hollywood is depressing and corrupt, politics is really depressing and corrupt -- and fueled even more than Hollywood by money -- if that's possible.
The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.
As a society we should try to never inhibit another person's creativity. In people like myself, it's all we have.
Here in Hollywood you can actually get a marriage license printed on an Etch-A-Sketch.
You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.
I think Hollywood has a class system. The actors are like the inmates, but the truth is they're running the asylum.
It's all a game. And if you don't want to play, maybe you shouldn't come to Hollywood.
The new artists coming through were very materialistic and Hollywood, not so engaged in communication.
The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.
I was never that into the movies. Never. Even as a youngster. I became interested in movie music only because of the studio orchestras in Hollywood.
I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.
People just assume that if you're famous, you're in Hollywood.
I came to the plain fields of Ohio with pictures painted by Hollywood movies and the works of Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller. None of them had much to say, if at all, about Dayton, Ohio.
There is no middle ground in Hollywood you're a failure or you're a success. That mentality is wild.
In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.
I've been a sports fan all my life, and like most other actors, I'm convinced I could have been a pro athlete if Hollywood hadn't come calling.
I had a kind of romantic notion about being a Hollywood Errol Flynn type.
It's aggravating that Hollywood has never gotten credit for the role it played in promoting modern design.
You had to stand in line to hate him.
Life in the movie business is like the beginning of a new love affair: it's full of surprises, and you're constantly getting fucked.