Justin Cronin Quotes

I've never been to Hollywood. I can count the number of times I've been to Los Angeles on my hands. I've never made a movie there and I've never been there for working reasons. The only reason to go there is for silly awards shows.

I don't really know Hollywood, and I think that L.A. needs a bit of time to really know the city, because it's such a huge city.

So there I was in Hollywood, thinking I was doing good.

For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

I don't really know Hollywood, but living and shooting in L.A. was very motivating, inspiring. The lights, the extras, their American faces, the energy, the Orpheum Theatre. It was all very inspiring.

When he brought it to me four years ago, Rodney King had just arrived, I was involved in the clean-up of L.A. and I guess it was part of my experience.

I've got no anti-America or anti-Hollywood kick, it's just that I never wanted to go and kick my heels around L.A. for six months hoping something would happen.

I've found, being in Los Angeles, it's like living in a live-action Planet Hollywood.

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

The thing about living in Los Angeles and doing a lot of movies is that you get to go to a lot of premieres, and, regardless of whether or not you're a celebrity, you still get to walk down the red carpet and then have everyone sort of screaming your name. The pictures never get printed anywhere, but they are nonetheless taking your picture.

Los Angeles is a city of few hard targets. Its iconic buildings are private spaces, mostly residential, visible by invitation only or in the pages of a Taschen book. Its central industry is as mirage-like as the projection of light on a screen.

I love California. I love Hollywood.

I love Los Angeles, and I love Hollywood. They're beautiful. Everybody's plastic, but I love plastic. I want to be plastic.

I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

It's always been my dream to come to L.A.

I was obsessed with Hollywood from the time I was a kid. I always knew I wanted to live in Los Angeles.

Hollywood is a great place if you're an orange.

[on Hollywood] It looks, it feels, as though it had been invented by a Sixth Avenue peepshow man.

Even though I grew up in L.A., no one in my family was in the movie industry.

I don't really know what Hollywood is. I've never really known.

I saw Hollywood born and I've seen it die...

What I like about Hollywood is that one can get along by knowing two words of English -- SWELL and LOUSY.

Los Angles is not my favorite city. Well, I shouldn't say that... I love to visit it, on a temporary basis. It's just such a company town! You can't go anywhere and not run into someone who wants to be in the business.

I knew just by reading this guy, Nathanael West, that he was probably one of those icky East Coast guys with glasses who got mad because when he came to L.A., all those starlets preferred producers or cowboys to him.

The more I come to L.A., the more it's amazing.