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"I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most."
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"I don't think there's a back lot here in Hollywood anymore that has those streets, like a French Quarter."
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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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"Silence is the sure sign that you're on your way out in Hollywood."
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"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."
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"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"
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"There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard."
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"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."
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"I'm big and a lot of the stars are smaller so if you're big and mean looking, you play bad guys. After Blade Runner, I was the meanest guy in Hollywood."
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"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."
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"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."
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"I did The Newton Boys and during the whole process of making the film, I may have spent a week in Los Angeles."
Boys
"I've never been a guy who had more than a toe in Hollywood anyway, so my toe is more easily lopped off than most."
Hollywood
"I've always been most interested in the politics of everyday life: your relation to whatever you're doing, or what your ambitions are, where you live, where you find yourself in the social hierarchy."
Politics
"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
Film
"It's luck that one thing works out and one doesn't, it's sort of happenstance."
Luck
"Everyone is encouraged to see their lives, the world through the eyes of the rich."
Society
"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
Film
"Before Sunrise did very well internationally. It made as much in Italy and Korea as it did here."
Film
"I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years."
Oil
"Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it."
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