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Hollywood is a small, familial place. Everyone does business with everybody else. The same complications occur in investment banking.

— Michael Ovitz

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

Times change; Hollywood is not the same as it was when I first entered the business. It felt to me like it was starting to narrow down and centralize itself around what would... make money.

— Robert Redford

Well, Hollywood isn't made up of individual studio heads anymore. It's made of corporations. And corporations are looking for the bottom line. They don't want to take chances. They want the money back for stockholders.

— Frank Oz

Well, there's different shades of Hollywood, sure. I mean, I'm working in this business but I'm not Hollywood.

— Shia LaBeouf

For the most part, Hollywood is very transactional. People want to make movies and television shows.

— Michael Lynton

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

— Bonnie Hunt

The main trouble with Hollywood is that the guys you have to pitch to, the guys who run the studios, are all business school grads.

— Terry Zwigoff

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

— Michel Hazanavicius

Hollywood is the backdrop of my family, and I know that the movie business is incredibly cruel as you get older.

— Jamie Lee Curtis

The corporation and the hedge funds have a hold on Hollywood, and they all want to make money on anything that signifies cinema.

— Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

✗Opposing Perspectives

Hollywood can be a very stinging town. They say it's a forgiving business. It's not that forgiving.

— Jeff Conaway