Hollywood Quotes

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Don't bring Hollywood; bring Christ. Don't bring power. Don'

Don't bring Hollywood; bring Christ. Don't bring power. Don't bring just your money. Bring love. Bring the kingdom.

Love Christianity Hollywood Christ

It feels like a barbell. When asked what she thought of her

It feels like a barbell. When asked what she thought of her newly acquired Oscar statuette

I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film

I devoutly believe it is the writer who has matured the film medium more than anyone else in Hollywood. Even when he knew nothing about his work, he brought at least knowledge of life and a more grown-up mind, a maturer feeling about the human being.

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday,

I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday.

Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll nev

Hollywood's like Egypt, full of crumbled pyramids. It'll never come back. It'll just keep on crumbling until finally the wind blows the last studio prop across the sands.

David O. Selznick

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers o

Bankers, nepotists, contracts and talkies: on four fingers one may count the leeches which have sucked a young and vigorous industry into paresis.

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invit

If my books had been any worse, I should not have been invited to Hollywood, and if they had been any better, I should not have come.

Raymond Chandler

Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars d

Its idea of production value is spending a million dollars dressing up a story that any good writer would throw away. Its vision of the rewarding movie is a vehicle for some glamour-puss with two expressions and eighteen changes of costume, or for some male idol of the muddled millions with a permanent hangover, six worn-out acting tricks, the build of a lifeguard, and the mentality of a chicken-strangler.

Raymond Chandler

The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded commu

The overall picture, as the boys say, is of a degraded community whose idealism even is largely fake. The pretentiousness, the bogus enthusiasm, the constant drinking, the incessant squabbling over money, the all-pervasive agent, the strutting of the big shots (and their usually utter incompetence to achieve anything they start out to do), the constant fear of losing all this fairy gold and being the nothing they have never ceased to be, the snide tricks, the whole damn mess is out of this world.

Raymond Chandler

That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there

That's one thing I like about Hollywood. The writer is there revealed in his ultimate corruption. He asks no praise, because his praise comes to him in the form of a salary check. In Hollywood the average writer is not young, not honest, not brave, and a bit overdressed. But he is darn good company, which book writers as a rule are not. He is better than what he writes. Most book writers are not as good.

Raymond Chandler

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the t

They don't want you until you have made a name, and by the time you have made a name, you have developed some kind of talent they can't use. All they will do is spoil it, if you let them.

Raymond Chandler

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individu

Some are able and humane men and some are low-grade individuals with the morals of a goat, the artistic integrity of a slot machine, and the manners of a floorwalker with delusions of grandeur.

Raymond Chandler

The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art

The motion picture made in Hollywood, if it is to create art at all, must do so within such strangling limitations of subject and treatment that it is a blind wonder it ever achieves any distinction beyond the purely mechanical slickness of a glass and chromium bathroom.

Raymond Chandler

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of m

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubt

In the court of the movie Owner, none criticized, none doubted. And none dared speak of art. In the Owner's mind art was a synonym for bankruptcy. The movie Owners are the only troupe in the history of entertainment that has never been seduced by the adventure of the entertainment world.

In Hollywood if you don't have happiness you send out for it

In Hollywood if you don't have happiness you send out for it.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find t

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you will find the real tinsel underneath.

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companie

Hollywood is the only industry, even taking in soup companies, which does not have laboratories for the purpose of experimentation.

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the mo

The only reason I'm in Hollywood is that I don't have the moral courage to refuse the money.