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"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
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"The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles."
"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."
"I have to go back to my younger days, when I just adored Hollywood musicals."
"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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"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."
"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."
"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."
"That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now."
"Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."
"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."
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