Lynda Obst Quotes

The bottom line of Hollywood is money.

I'm gonna sing, and I'm going to make me a lot of money.

I have made all my monies through cinema.

Hollywood has treated me well.

You know, Hollywood is a very interesting town - always has been, always will be.

Apart from earning an awful lot of money, why would you go to Hollywood?

I don't think the money people in Hollywood have ever thought I was normal, but I am dedicated to my work and that's what counts.

I'm not bragging but my movies have grossed well over a billion dollars.

Hollywood listens to money and to controversy.

I have two trifling ambitions in the theater: to make a lot of people laugh and to make a lot of money.

If you really want to understand Hollywood, you have to live in it.

Hollywood, at the bottom of it, is about money.

The movie industry is full of crazy people who think that they are god.

The only times you'll see me in terms of the movie business is when I have to go to the premieres of my own movies. I don't go to see ones that aren't mine because I don't even like going to mine.

I have been working professionally in the entertainment industry since I was six.

I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.

I think, unfortunately or fortunately, the reality of Hollywood is that if your movie makes money, they'll make another one.

I don't own Hollywood.

I do want to be in mainstream movies that are going to be seen. I suppose it satisfies the showbiz side of me.

Hollywood is great. I also think it's stupid and small-minded and shortsighted.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

I was born at the age of twelve on a Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer lot.

There were very, very large sums of money that I made when I was very young - 15 million published works and a great many successful movies don't make nothin'.

I don't know what goes on in their heads out in Hollywood.

Hollywood is an extraordinary kind of temporary place.