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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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"The trap is that you then just start doing stuff about Hollywood, which I don't really want to do."
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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 had a meeting in LA in which they took a really overstuffed hour and a half. It was as close to old Hollywood as I remembered it in the last 20 years."
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"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation."
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"I do Broadway because I refuse to succumb to the stereotypical things that Hollywood does to a performer."
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"I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow."
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"Everybody in Hollywood was in Around the World in 80 Days. If you weren't, you left town and made up an excuse."
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"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."
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"I find Hollywood really toxic."
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"You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take your eyes away from it... Look at some of the long takes in Citizen Kane."
Cuts
"The movies that are made more thoughtfully or made or with more ambition often get just get drowned out by the noise."
Movies
"I think most people are more susceptible to prejudice than to reason."
People
"But the fact is, most people are not going to be rich someday."
People
"Most of us do not consciously look at movies."
Movies
"A lot of people just go to movies that feed into their preexisting and not so noble needs and desires: They just go to action pictures, and things like that."
Movies
"I am utterly bored by celebrity interviews. Most celebrities are devoid of interest."
Interviews
"I begin to feel like most Americans don't understand the First Amendment, don't understand the idea of freedom of speech, and don't understand that it's the responsibility of the citizen to speak out."
Creativity
"Movies absorb our attention more completely, I think."
Movies
"Class is often invisible in America in the movies, and usually not the subject of the film."
Movies
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