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I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.

Hollywood was not a place I dreamed of getting to. I never could take seriously the obsession people have about being a celebrity or getting to Hollywood - I was born next door.

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.

I think they built Hollywood on the West Coast because they were always dreaming of a New World. When they arrived here, the only way to keep dreaming was to make movies. Film was the fourth dimension.

Hollywood, for me, is the studios. It's a way to produce. It's a different way to make movies, and I never took part in that.

I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.

Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and in failure, with anticipation and with dread.

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.

I didn't want to do a movie, but Hollywood was going to do it with or without us.

I never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York.