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Hollywood is a world all its own.

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

In Hollywood, you grow up quick.

Most people grow up dreaming of going to Hollywood and some of them work and work and work and finally end up in Hollywood.

Hollywood's full of transients. Everybody comes from somewhere else.

The problem in Hollywood is that they try to become the only kind of cinema in the world, okay? The imposition everywhere of a unique culture, which is Hollywood culture, and a unique way of life, which is the American way of life.

Hollywood is tied hand and foot to the demands for artificiality of the masses all over the world.

I absolutely refuse to accept the fact that any country in the world goes into a kind of film-making crisis. What happens is they lose confidence, they lose focus and the young film-makers of any particular generation can very easily get lost in that mix. It's happened in Italy, happened in France, happened in the U.K. during my lifetime.

When you go off in the world and make your life, and you come back to your home town, and you find your old high-school friends driving in the same circles, doing the same things, that's what Hollywood's like. It's a little block, little town. It doesn't really grow or change.

Hollywood is so fake and people need to realize that people are just people, and you, too, don't need to be born into something or have money or have whatever product someone is hawking on you.