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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."
"How could a New Yorker possibly take something called the Hollywood String Quartet seriously?"
"I was told once that I didn't play the Hollywood game, and that's why I wasn't a big star. What they meant when was that I don't go to parties, and when I go to an audition and I don't like the script, they know it."
"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."
"Very narrow areas of expertise can be very productive. Develop your own profile. Develop your own niche."
"My grandfather was running Hillcrest Country Club, and that's where a whole group of Hollywood comedians hung out."
"Working in Hollywood can be tumultuous, with incredible highs and lows and you need to be grounded."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"That attitude toward women as objects may have worked for the late Sixties, but it doesn't do so now."
"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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