Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Hollywood is kind of a bad world.
My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.
For so many filmmakers, cinema is a means to an end.
If the goal is to get the best artists, actors, and filmmakers in the world to create the best movies, Hollywood does a decent job. And I think no one would disagree with me that it also makes a ton of bad movies and employs a bunch of hacks.
The trouble with Hollywood films is that they always have a pleasant ending.
I think bad movies are made around the world, not just in Hollywood. There are as many bad art films in the whole world as there are bad commercial films.
There's this assumption that as an actor, Hollywood is always the end point, but I never thought along those lines.
Hollywood is not good when it comes to age.
No matter how successful you get in Hollywood, you cannot rest. Your new movie doesn't open well; they're looking for the next person to replace you; it's always something. You never have true peace.
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.