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Douglas Wood

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

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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 spoke to my agent and learned that a Hollywood scout had seen my proposal in one of the publishing houses, and had faxed it to Hollywood, where it was generating a lot of interest."

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"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press."

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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 arrived in Hollywood without having my nose fixed, my teeth capped, or my name changed. That is very gratifying to me."

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"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."

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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 figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it."

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"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."

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"There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does."

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"Hollywood is a world all its own."

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"Originality is, for me, the most important quality in a script."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Fear of failure has always been my best motivator."
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"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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"Dick Van Dyke was my first idol. He's an amazing physical comedian, like a classic clown, but also very smart and not afraid to show vulnerability."
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"Unfortunately, all the cliches we see about Hollywood are true."
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