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"There are thousands of directors in Hollywood."
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"In the middle of my third Hollywood picture The Magician, the earthquake hit Hollywood. Not the real earthquake. Just the talkies."
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"I find Hollywood really toxic."
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"In Hollywood if you are not working, you are a leper. True, you are probably living in the most expensive leper colony in the world."
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"The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia."
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"Hollywood hasn't aggressively pursued me. Neither have I aggressively pursued Hollywood."
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"You don't want to become one of those Hollywood idiots who is just blathering about anything."
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"I'm Anna May Wong. I come from old Hong Kong. But now I'm a Hollywood star."
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"The world changed. Hollywood changed. I think we've lost something, and we don't know how to get it back."
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"If Washington is a two-party town, why can't Hollywood be one too?"
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"Writers never get a very good deal in Hollywood."
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"Now, it's almost impossible to go out and do a film about a new form of music."
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"I love punk rock, but I also love metal."
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"Decline III, I funded myself, from the studio money. That, and I sold a lot of drugs. Kidding. Don't print that."
Money
"In other countries, it's a common thing to have outcast children running around the streets in packs, and I don't think we're so far away from it here."
Family
"This generation has given up on growth. They're just hoping for survival."
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"It is the idea that it's a movie in a movie. So I did it."
Creativity
"It's really hard to imagine there ever being the kind of impact there was when punk rock happened in the late 70's. I wish there would be one big change like that again, but I don't know if that'll ever happen."
Change
"The first Decline I did was out of sheer love and appreciation for the music. In 1977, it was more about bands, because punk was a new form of music. It was groundbreaking and political."
Love
"For the most part, studio movies have huge budgets. They don't do anything under 30 to 40 million. When you have that much money at stake, you have so many people breathing down your neck."
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"I was always into music. I think everyone is when they're a teenager, as a way to drown out the world."
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