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"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
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"I don't think about Hollywood at all."
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"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out."
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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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"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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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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"Hollywood didn't kill Marilyn Monroe, it's the Marilyn Monroes who are killing Hollywood."
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"I got a good handshake. A lot of executives tell me I have the best handshake in Hollywood."
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"What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait."
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"I am not a Hollywood Jew and I won't ever be one."
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"Hollywood wants press, any kind of press."
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"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."
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
"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."
Film
"Oh, the relationship with actors and managers and agents and things is a terrible problem sometimes."
Actor
"There are certain actors who are very good at improvising, like Dustin Hoffman and Glenda Jackson."
Actor
"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
"Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place."
Hollywood
"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
"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."
Media
"That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now."
Attitude
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