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"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
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"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."
"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."
"Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons."
"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"
"This is the place to see the stars - Hollywood Bowl."
"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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"I have a feeling he felt Jon Voight had run away with the film, which he didn't, though he was brilliant in it, in a much less easy part. I just don't know what had got into him, but something had."
"That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now."
"I'll never forget the first screening at the Berlin Film Festival. As soon as the film ended there was an outbreak of booing, which made us look at each other with some surprise."
"Yes, but I think if you look at it with a sort of gay sensibility and want everything to be positive about gay life, it could be interpreted as antigay."
"I thought his performance was absolutely wonderful and had said so, but he seemed, as actors quite often are when they first see.something, to be disappointed. I think he expected more from the film and himself."
"Still, the film nearly didn't happen a number of times. There were great arguments with United Artists about how to reduce the cost because they were nothing if not conscious of the price of the film."
"Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes."
"No, United Artists was a very extraordinary organization, because once they had agreed on the director, they believed in letting him have his way. They trusted me, and that doesn't often happen."
"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."
"Symbolism perhaps is a bit in your face, and I've tried my best to control that as best I can as I've grown older and thought that one could approach something with a little more subtlety."
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