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"Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded."
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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."

"I bought a house in the Hollywood Hills and brought my grandmother from Harlem to live in it with me."

"All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely."

"Hollywood sold its stars on good looks and personality buildups. We weren't really actresses in a true sense, we were just big names - the products of a good publicity department."

"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."

"But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy."

"I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."
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"The best way for a beginner to write for animation is to closely watch animated films, then read the screenplays for them afterwards."

"I used to love Woody Allen but feel he's become a hack as a director. Bullets Over Broadway is the only film of his I've enjoyed in the last 10 years."

"That said, I should also add that I learned a great deal from being allowed in these privileged circles and am grateful for the opportunity to have worked closely with some of the most powerful and successful people in the business including Steven Spielberg and Ted Turner."

"I love all of Albert Brooks' work from Defending Your Life back to his first film, Real Life, but am sorry that he seems to have lost his edge in his more recent work."

"Right now, writing for me is most rewarding because I'm old enough now to have something to say, which probably wasn't always the case."

"I would rather read a poorly structured story that has fresh ideas than a tightly structured one with cliches."

"I'm more concerned with getting them to find and strengthen their original voice as writers rather than imposing my own subjective tastes, judgements or sensibility on the project."

"When I saw The Player, I came out with knots in my stomach because it was so true to my experience."
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