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"Everyone is treating it like a Hollywood story. In Madison, it's a neighborhood story."
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"I remember having to take detours around the Hollywood sign to avoid having to see this grotesque poster of myself on Sunset Boulevard."
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"Hollywood is a place where the stars twinkle until they wrinkle."
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"But Tommy Lee Jones is just smooth. He's just the real deal. I'm captivated by him because there's so little of that in Hollywood, and he just embodies it."
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"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
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"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
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"It seems the farther away we are from Hollywood, the better the ratings."
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"I've seen it too many times in Hollywood. Talking about a relationship in public can jinx it. And if you have your picture taken together, you might as well start packing your bags."
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"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
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"The attempt is that we want to get a couple of minutes under our belt, depending on how good the tests are and take that into Hollywood. The fallback is we're going to DVD anyways. We've got that covered."
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"My parents kept us sheltered from this world of Hollywood. I don't have any great memories of bouncing on Cary Grant's knee or something like that."
Hollywood
"I grew up in Hollywood. Saying my name here is like mentioning Ford in Detroit."
Hollywood
"I view the whole thing as a collaboration. As an actor, I always found that to be the most freeing thing, when the director would collaborate with you, so that together you'd come up with something exponentially better."
Actor
"I want to keep doing different things. I'd like to do a more personal, dramatic movie next, I think. But as long as it's about characters and good writing and good parts for actors, that's what's important."
Actor
"The more decisions you make, the better, statistically, your odds of success are. And what I also learned was, it doesn't matter: anything can be fixed. When you're directing, you can agonize, but you can't indulge. Stuff has to happen."
Success
"I don't get over the wonder of it, and 'The Last Samurai' was an extreme example of that. Every day when I went to the set, I couldn't believe what I was seeing."
Day
"I don't want to do an action movie, because I've acted in them, and they're so boring to do, because they're so technical. The headache of that is daunting. But, if it were an action movie with really interesting characters, how great would that be?"
Action
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