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"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
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"Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism."
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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."
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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."
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"It only worked for a little while; the morning after I agreed to go with Universal, an article came out in the Hollywood trade papers, and the secret was out."
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"Studio 54 made Halloween in Hollywood look like a PTA meeting."
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"An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer."
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"I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals."
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"In Hollywood - in Hollywood, you're as good as your last picture."
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"In Hollywood, brides keep the bouquets and throw away the groom."
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"Hollywood is a world all its own."
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"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
Hollywood
"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've never felt that using something with tongue in cheek has been a bad thing."
Media
"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
"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."
Media
"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
"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
"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."
Actor
"Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes."
Actor
"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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