Holly Hunter Quotes

I was shocked the first time the paps got me in America - when a video camera is put in your face and you're asked questions and 15 people are walking backwards taking your picture. I was coming out of a pizza shop and had my daughter with me.

I'm intensely private, and I've openly shown annoyance at the paparazzi.

I can't stand the gossip of celebrities' lives, all the time! Every minute!

When I used to go to Elvis's house was always a nightmare trying to get into the house because of so many fans outside the gate and he really couldn't go anywhere without sneaking in or doing something because people just wanted to be around him and to be with him.

The paparazzi do what they do, man. They have a job, too.

I'm not someone who likes to be in the whole Hollywood tabloids.

I've had people following me home or standing outside my house. It's strange. I just don't think people were meant to be worshipped or idolised.

I like watching films when I don't know anything about the people.

But it kills me, this fascination with celebrities' personal lives.

I am a filmmaker fanatic. I have never been star-struck by an actor once in my entire life.

The major gossip columnists were more concerned with protecting the industry than with gunning down sinners.

Facebook mistreats its users. Facebook is not your friend; it is a surveillance engine. For instance, if you browse the Web and you see a 'like' button in some page or some other site that has been displayed from Facebook. Therefore, Facebook knows that your machine visited that page.

There's certainly something very uncomfortable about the voyeurism involved in being in the press, being an actor, where people have a seemingly insatiable curiosity about, you.

People get a little sidelined thinking that fame and fortune is going to bring them happiness, peace and contentment in their lives. Everyone thinks they want to be famous until the paparazzi are in their face, and then they're asking, 'Just give me some privacy.'

Being famous has changed a lot, because now there's so many outlets, between magazines, TV shows, and the Internet, for people to stalk and follow you. We created the monster.

The paparazzi is kind of crazy here in L.A., but it's nothing like it is in London. They are animals over there, it's insane.

I think there ought to be some serious discussion by smart people, really smart people, about whether or not proliferation of things like The Smoking Gun and TMZ and YouTube and the whole celebrity culture is healthy.

My mother emails me stuff about when she finds a paparazzi photo and they're like, his hair is out of control.

People know everything about everybody now.

What stars do in their off-hours is a never-ending source of diddling curiosity to the tabloid sensibility.

We are all victims of data mining…. We are in a data mining culture…. Americans do not place a high value on the privacy of their communications and will give up that right for modest benefit.

… splendid isolation

My clothes, my stockings, my wigs were a matter of public discussion …. Columnists asked me about anything and everything—except my job. Women's magazines and women's pages featuring articles about me—sometimes without bothering to interview me. Cartoonist delight in sketching me and my clothes and swelling girth. and always the whispers and speculation about my sex life—how much, and with whom.

Secrecy at the level of the individual suspect is different from keeping the very existence of massive surveillance programs secret.

The evidence does not support the proposition that there is a significant measure of safety that is added as a result of collecting all these records on law abiding Americans.