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We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it.

There's a tendency in this Hollywood machinery to take on too much. You end up not being able to give everything you want.

Hollywood is strange in and of itself. People dress up and pretend to be other people, and you can either make millions of dollars, or no money. It's odd.

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

Hollywood is not known as a culture of grace. Dog-eat-dog is more like it. People love you one day and hate you the next. Personal value is very much attached to box office revenues and the unpredictable and often cruel winds of fashion.

The whole idea of doing the Hollywood thing never even occurred to me. When you grow up on the East coast, Hollywood seems like this fantasy land and you don't think that people can actually make a living there.

I've had no helping hand in Hollywood. But in general, I've found that when it comes to getting jobs, what's meant for you can't pass you by.

The way Hollywood works, you're never sure if their first thought is to make a great film and honor the material or just another business property.

Hollywood is like living in a weird bubble. A bunch of people take care of you and get you stuff, and you're the center of that little microcosmic world. You start believing that it is real and... you deserve it.

Hollywood has a way of sucking the world's talent to it.