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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 about Hollywood at all."
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"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out."
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"In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies."
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"It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out."
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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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"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."
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"I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood."
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"What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait."
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"I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one."
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"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press."
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"Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it."
Talent
"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 think I got really lucky with Slacker. That was a film that probably shouldn't have been seen."
Film
"I worked offshore as an oil worker for a couple of years."
Oil
"Yes, but Hollywood is the strangest place in that they'll torpedo their own film to prove an emotional point."
Film
"Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times."
Faith
"I think there are more films being made, but there are probably less outlets for them and distributors."
Being
"The truth will only be told over a career."
Truth
"I lost a year or two in there, trying to get films financed that I didn't know would never get financing."
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