I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.
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.
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 a small town, believe it or not. I see the same people over and over, so it's not that overwhelming or crazy as you might think.
I don't think about Hollywood at all.
My mother had been an actress and we came from that world in New York, the theater world and the downtown sort of theater scene, and so I guess we didn't really have what you'd call like a Hollywood kind of life at all.
I don't think I ever understood Hollywood.
Hollywood is a world all its own.
Hollywood does not understand Middle America, and it certainly does not understand and, in fact, despises, the core values of the country.
Hollywood is much more than America. Hollywood belongs to all of the planet.