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The trap for an actor is that you become too successful at what you're trying to do, and you can find yourself stuck there.

You've got to be really careful that you're not falling into the Hollywood trap, you know?

I'm not the Hollywood type. I'm not going to pack up my bags and let me move to Hollywood and stuff like that.

Hollywood is so governed by the ego, and I never wanted to fall into that trap.

I have no interest in changing Hollywood. Hollywood is a place so consumed by the spirit of the world that I don't even want to try to think about how to infiltrate that.

I don't really want to do the Hollywood thing. I think you ought to try to say something with your movies.

The truth is that I got to Hollywood, and I didn't know what to do once I got there.

I don't think the Hollywood community is interested in what I can do. That's all right. I've never looked for a job in my life, and I'm not going to start now. I have plenty to keep me busy.

Work on your writing skills. Realize that Hollywood is an industry built to keep you out, and once you're in, it's designed to cycle you out - so you have to get up every day and work all day long to give Hollywood a reason to let you in, and then to keep you in.

The business of Hollywood, if you don't have other things going on, it will eat you up and spit you out... If you take what those people and that social structure think of you - if you let it govern your life - you might as well just kill yourself.