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Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.

Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet.

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.

I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.

Hollywood is a place where they place you under contract instead of under observation.

Sometimes, I wonder where my place in this town called 'Hollywood' is - and that can give you a really dull headache.

Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right.

Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

North Hollywood isn't actually Hollywood, it's in the San Fernando Valley... it's not the most glamorous part of L.A.

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.