Lynda Obst Quotes

I don't much care for Hollywood, I'd rather have a nice cup of cocoa.

Hollywood is wonderful. Anyone who doesn't like it is either crazy or sober.

Hollywood is just so strange. It's like, everyone has a whole bunch of stuff boiling away and whichever one happens first, happens. That one, we're still in the process of, you know, trying to write the script. So, it's still very early stages at this point. Yeah.

Hollywood -- that's where they give Academy Awards to Charlton Heston for acting.

It's so crazy in Hollywood.

So give me a turbulent world as opposed to a quiet world and I'll take the turbulent one.

There is a feeling that events are in the air; all that is unpredictable is their timing. Perhaps we shall see several more years of peace, but it is equally possible that overnight some tremendous upheaval will happen.

People are tired of constant movement, improvisation, and wild scrambling when plans fail.

It's a chain of accidents. When you step into Hollywood, you wind yourself into thousands of chains of accidents. If all of the thousands happen to come out exactly right-and the chance of that figures out to be one in eight million-then you'll be a star.

Hollywood ... the most sensational merry-go-around ever built.

If there's one thing that's certain in business, it's uncertainty.

To me, Hollywood seems a little bipolar. Things happen; things don't happen. Someone's in a movie; someone's not in a movie. I've learned not to build my expectations.

We live in a pretty bleak time. I feel that in the air. Everything is uncertain. Everything feels like its on the precipice of some major transformation, whether we like it or not.

The world is changing so quickly, it's hard to get anything right for long.

The one thing we can all be sure about in politics is you are as well to expect the unexpected.

Our trust in the future has lost its innocence. We know now that anything can happen from one minute to the next. Politics, religion, economics, and the institutions of family and community all have become abruptly unsure.

Life is full of change and uncertainty. We know this. We experience it on a daily basis.

Hollywood is a cross between a health farm, a recreation center and an insane asylum. It's a company town, and I happen to like the company!

The studio scene in California is sort of ridiculous anyway.

The film business is absurd. Stars don't last very long. It's much more interesting to be a proper actor.

Anything can change in show business; you know how it goes, everything changes from one day to the other.

I've seen too many ups and downs in the movie industry.

The Twenties have this sort of attitude where you never know what's around the corner.

It's feast or famine in showbiz.

I didn't even understand the whole idea of Hollywood.