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"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
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"Mostly I do films that mainstream Hollywood wouldn't touch."
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"Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks."
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"I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood."
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"In Hollywood we acquire the finest novels in order to smell the leather bindings."
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"I was the center square on Hollywood Squares for about fifteen weeks."
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"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."
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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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"I consider myself a student of Hollywood."
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"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"
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"You can't find any true closeness in Hollywood, because everybody does the fake closeness so well."
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"We taped all this and then got it transcribed and picked the best lines or ideas or ways to take a scene. I've done that many times, and it can improve the script but also wreck a perfectly good scene."
Creativity
"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."
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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."
Emotional
"I met a hustler at a dinner party. He had been invited because I was looking for an adviser to help me with the street scenes. So we put him on the film."
Film
"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
Hollywood
"That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now."
Attitude
"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."
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"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."
Life
"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."
Thought
"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."
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