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"The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios."
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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."

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

"Tarantino's stuff in its inception was all about finding a way for him to break into Hollywood."

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"As the captain, I was going to be having the dominant role in most of the episodes, and that was appealing. I wasn't interested in coming to Hollywood to sit around."

"Generally, Hollywood makes the same stories over and over. I've never wanted to do the same thing twice. If a script doesn't surprise me in some way, I simply can't commit to the project."

"Obviously I am not the young man who came to Hollywood in 1946."

"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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