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Sometimes Hollywood is a small town on the West Coast of America at the furthest point from everywhere else, and that can make it a little provincial and insular.

Hollywood is the kind of place that takes what you do well in one thing and manufactures it so the joy can be taken out of it.

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

The allure of Hollywood is huge when you don't know anything. You don't know the knives behind the smiles.

New York is the Hollywood of the publishing industry, complete with stars, starlets, suicidal publishers/producers, intrigues, and a lot of money.

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

Hollywood is a suction for your confidence or your faith or your togetherness. Just walking on the street you can feel it.

I love New York City. Everyone is busy with their own lives - and no one is interested in some Hollywood celebrity walking past in downtown Manhattan.

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

The one thing that you simply have to remember all the time that you are there, is that Hollywood is an oriental city. As long as you do that you might survive. If you try to equate it with anything else you'll perish.