No studio in Hollywood wanted 'Cold Mountain.' None. No one wanted 'Ripley,' no one wanted 'The English Patient.' That tells you there isn't really an appetite for ambitious movie-making out there.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I didn't want to do a movie, but Hollywood was going to do it with or without us.
Certainly, the Hollywood cinema, there's almost nothing of interest coming out of there.
Nothing seems to come up to your expectations. But nothing I had heard about Hollywood was enough.
I've never much been interested in doing films that no one gets to see.
There are a lot of movies made for nobody.
There are wonderful films that become studio films, but they're conceived independently. That's where the action is. 'Being John Malkovich' is a great example of a picture you wouldn't think the studios would want, and it turns out to be a movie that touches everybody's heart.
I never did love Hollywood, I just loved the work.
There were a lot of people dreaming about making films, and they would finance maybe 6 films a year. Because they were funded by the government, the films sort-of had to deal with serious social issues - and, as a result, nobody went to see those films.
There's not a lot of good movies being made.
I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York.
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