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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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"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."
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"Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath."
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"I've watched the demise of the Hollywood orchestra, the house orchestras of the big studios."
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"And then I went into television; and then television moved from the East Coast to Hollywood."
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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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"The strange thing is that since I've been offered lots of films I think that maybe they think that I've sold out to Hollywood. Which is not the case if anybody's listening."
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"I don't think I ever understood Hollywood."
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"I was offered a free villa in Hollywood, but I said no thank you, I prefer to live in Italy."
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"Richard Donner is one of the few directors in Hollywood that can make whatever movie he wants exactly the way he wants it. No one will stop him."
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"It doesn't really matter if this movie's a success or not, because it's already out there."
Success

"I think sport in general affects what people see in movies. I always try to explain to people in Hollywood that we have to make movies more like sport because, in sport, everything can happen and it's so much better than movies in some ways."
Movies

"Everybody knows that the industrialized nations are the worst offenders."
Nation

"There's a rule in Hollywood: stay away from water and stay away from snow, and I had both."
Hollywood

"Nobody makes movies bad on purpose."
Movies

"There's not really much destruction in New York besides the weather and it's a natural force so it's not like any destruction. But LA gets leveled (laughs). That's my comment to Hollywood."
Destruction

"I thought it must be pure science fiction. But when I checked it out I found a lot of magazine articles that actually supported the theory behind the book which was incredible. That's when I decided to acquire the rights of the book and everything went from there."
Science

"It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies."
Movies

"When you find something where you can give people a message and still make it an exciting movie, you get very, very excited about something. You probably even work harder than you normally do."
Work
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