Now, there doesn't have to necessarily be a white man in the lead role. That's the way forward. That's diversity. It's cool if an Indian is playing the lead role in a Hollywood project, and we should...

Everything is for sale in Hollywood; the fairy tale, the costume, the pumpkin, the footman and the mice.

If you go out to Hollywood you'll find a lot of fantastic plastic people there in the business and a lot of people in life generally. They find it so hard to be themselves that they have to be...

I've pitched many things that have not gone, but every year, I'm in that pilot game like a lot of other writers in Hollywood.

My first movie was with Mike Nichols.

Hindi movies will never be liked by the critics, trust me. The mainstream Hollywood film will not be liked by the critics.

Hollywood always wanted me to be pretty, but I fought for realism.

I wasn't like a Hollywood child actor - 'I'm five! I can sing, I can dance, I can act! I wanna be a star!'

When I was a little girl, I watched old movies maybe shot at Paramount Studios, and the fact that every day I get to drive onto the lot and shoot a show that sometimes takes place in the '40s, it's...

I can see it in even great actors' performances, when they're phoning it in.

Hollywood must have been terrific once.

I would say that the first 'X-Men' was the hardest. It took us a long time to get it going.

When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.

Hollywood was possible for a while! Why didn't I go along with it? Well, the other things that were pulling me back were more important. Being at home, being in the same marriage, these things enabled...

Not only our political system is broken, but how we do business and have public discourse with one another. The system in Hollywood, specifically, is not depicting people of color; we're not even...

Hollywood wants to go for the flash, because that's what a lot of them think science fiction is.

I spent my older teen years holding my tongue while my Hollywood coworkers gushed about big government, attacked anyone to the Right of raging socialism, and shunned me every time I posted a picture...

You know how macho boys get when they're all together? Well, the set of 'Desperado' was like that. They were all trying to put me down, saying, 'Bring on the stuntwoman, Salma can't do that.' But I...

When I first came out to L.A., Hollywood's idea of a Latina was Mexican. It was almost like they had never seen or heard of an Afro-Latina before.

I have the feeling that you can get older here in Germany, or in Europe, but in Hollywood, you have to look perfect all the time. So it's really hard.

This is what Hollywood tends to do. It tends to disregard tradition, history and anything factual, twisting it and turning it and making it all okay regardless of what the English may think of it.

The standard entertainment industry reaction to Hollywood's box office slump reveals the same shallow, materialistic mindset that helped create the problem in the first place.

Hollywood is the place to be for actors - and there's just a big rush when an Australian comes over just because there's less of them. I guess that's just how it is. Like if you pick a pink jellybean...

So many Hollywood actresses become successful and then just keep on going - they miss out on having a partner and a baby and end up lonely.

When you're black in Hollywood, you know, your first role is going to be on a crime drama. That's - everybody knows that.

The 1920s was the beginning of the media age. For the first time people were taking influences from the radio, Vogue and Hollywood.

Hollywood does seem like the holy grail. Not to diminish anything from other countries, but it's the most mainstream and hardest to be a part of because there are so many people in it.

There are so many huge roles in the theatre: if you've got the option to play Hedda Gabler on stage, why wouldn't you choose that over a three-line part in a Hollywood film as somebody's maid or...

I always wanted to do a bit of Bollywood and a bit of Hollywood.

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