I've definitely had my fair share at shaking my fists at the gods of Hollywood, but I'm learning that I cannot think that way or I will go crazy.
They spend an awful lot of money on I-don't-know-what in Hollywood movies; I certainly didn't get any of it. But they sure do love spending money.
Most of Hollywood is about making money - and I love money, but I don't make the films thinking about money.
I'm not really a Hollywood person. Not that I don't like L.A., but I'm just a Northern California guy.
There's a certain thought process about actors that they are in Hollywood and they sit around pools and get suntans and just get offered jobs.
The way I like to describe Hollywood today is this: everyone wants to make 'Deliverance,' but no one wants to be Ned Beatty.
I keep a pretty low profile. I live in Culver City with some roommates. I don't do the whole 'Hollywood' thing.
The average person in Hollywood just assumes that if you're on a hit TV show, then that's the first thing you've ever done.
I've interviewed the president in the White House. I'd interviewed major newsmakers and Hollywood actors.
For me, my number one Hollywood role model is Jennifer Lopez.
Hollywood likes to imagine robots as mechanical copies of ourselves - which is a terrible idea.
You know, I'm not in a hurry, and everybody else in Hollywood - particularly agents and managers - they're all in a hurry.
What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait.
I'm from really humble beginnings. I've never been this Hollywood diva, but you get caught up in what you're pretending to be.
I don't hang out with movie stars, and you won't see me going to many Hollywood parties. I'm actually quite boring.
My husband is someone who's in the real world. It's a big help that I don't have both feet in Hollywood.
Hollywood used to control the distribution; now Silicon Valley does.
I realize I am contradictory: I have an independent filmmaker's sensibility and a Hollywood director's short-attention span.
Being an actress in Hollywood and being a celebrity tend to feed into one another, but just being a celebrity wouldn't really be interesting to me.
Sometimes Hollywood manages to knock a movie in its teeth so hard that it never manages to get back up.
When I'm writing my blog, I think of myself at 13 years old, back in St. Louis, daydreaming about Hollywood.
