Jerry Orbach Quotes

Hollywood is still the mecca for good or bad, but it isn't the beginning or end for filmmaking.

When I came out to Hollywood, I discovered the perfect place for my creative madness - Cannon Pictures.

Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.

The U.S., especially Hollywood, is so strong for film production.

It's a good time to be making movies, despite the cynicism people have about Hollywood.

I don't really know anything about the movie business, even though I've lived in Los Angeles my whole life - somehow I've never bumped into it.

To do a studio film, something with Disney. My father is thrilled.

The movie industry used to be completely accessible. We all knew people in it, and nobody made a big fuss.

When it comes to turning out movies, I'm for Hollywood.

We live in the moment now where this whole movie business is crazy.

I've always had a great respect for the picture business. It's been good to me.

The Hollywood structure was monopolistic, run by four or five big studios.

The more I see of the movie business, the less I understand about it. I have no idea what goes on with that stuff.

Hollywood is responsible for some of the greatest and worst movies of all time!

Everyone in Hollywood has a screenplay.

I grew up right near Hollywood, and I wanted to be a filmmaker.

Well, I haven't really been able to shoot in California for a while. Little movies yeah, but the big movies we can't shoot there. It's just a shame that Arnold Schwarzenegger can't deliver on this level.

I don't think the competition's so rough, within the majority of movies made in Hollywood.

I think you get in trouble if you make experimental big studio films.

I didn't know anything about movies or movie stars or the Academy or anything. I was just a blank sheet of paper. I was totally ignorant of all that stuff. I never went to the movies, didn't know anything about the movies.

There's nothing like walking onto a Hollywood sound stage.

Hollywood grew to be the most flourishing factory of popular mythology since the Greeks.

I think Paul Newman had an amazing career. I also love what Tom Hanks has done. He has always made very grounded movies that have something to say. He has found a way to make blockbusters that are about something and that is what I want to do.

If you love movies, then you love America.

I think what Hollywood has done for so long, is make movies for themselves.