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.
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Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
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.
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.
A generation before, it had been sagebrush and coyotes; a generation later, it was a burgeoning movie town. But for that brief idyllic time in 1910, Hollywood looked like the perfect place for a successful writer to settle down, build his dream house, and maybe do some gardening.
I think everybody dreamt somehow to make a film in Hollywood, you know.
I believe 'Hollywood' is more like middle America than many people imagine.
The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.
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 never thought about movies. I never thought about Hollywood. It was just being on the stage and being in New York.
No wonder the film industry started in the desert in California where, like all desert dwellers, they dream their buildings, rather than design them.