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

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

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

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

"You know, there's so much imitation and so much pandering in Hollywood."
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"It's like everybody is obsessed with Hollywood movies worldwide. And even though everybody hates the Americans, they're still watching American movies."


"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."


"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."


"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."


"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."


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