My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.
Hollywood is kind of a bad world.
Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.
Hollywood was a detour, although my mother was an aristocrat from Tokyo who ran away to join the theatre, so acting is in my genes.
What you have now is a Hollywood that is pure poison. Hollywood was a central place in the history of art in the 20th century: it was human idealism preserved. And then, like any great place, it collapsed, and it collapsed into the most awful machinery in the world.
When I first came here, Hollywood was very closed-minded.
Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.
My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.
I just feel lucky to have grown up where I did because I think it gave me a nice base. Hollywood can really mess with your sense of self and I feel like coming from the South keeps me pretty grounded.
Hollywood's full of transients. Everybody comes from somewhere else.
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