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"Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation."
"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."
"The criteria, for me, is movie star. It's Hollywood. Not Somalia."
"I tell you, I'm really not what you'd call into your basic kink, even though we do live in Hollywood, which is a little bit like living in a box of granola."
"I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood."
"I would rather have gotten married than have a Hollywood contract."
"In Hollywood everything is so documented. If you go for a drink with somebody, it's passed around the world so quickly."
"But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy."
Explore more quotes by Ben Hecht
"There's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it."
"I know that a man who shows me his wealth is like the beggar who shows me his poverty; they are both looking for alms from me, the rich man for the alms of my envy, the poor man for the alms of my guilt."
"Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle."
"Listen, little boy. In this business, there's only one law you gotta follow to keep outta trouble. Do it first, do it yourself, and keep on doin' it."
"The rule in the art world is: you cater to the masses or you kowtow to the elite; you can't have both."
"I discovered early in my movie work that a movie is never any better than the stupidest man connected with it. There are times when this distinction may be given to the writer or director. Most often it belongs to the producer."
"A man nearly always loves for other reasons than he thinks. A lover is apt to be as full of secrets from himself as is the object of his love from him."
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