Pastoral Resources

I was supposed to go to drama school and then go to New York and do theatre. But I grew up on all those fabulous movies and had read all the bold Hollywood books, and I thought I just had to take a look.

My grandmother and I followed my mother here, to a house a block north of Hollywood Boulevard but a million miles away from Hollywood, if you know what I mean. We would hang out behind the ropes and look at the movie stars arriving at the premieres.

I began to feel that the drama of the truth that is in the moment and in the past is richer and more interesting than the drama of Hollywood movies. So I began looking at documentary films.

It devastates me now that I have been reduced to a Hollywood statistic - another joke marriage.

Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons.

There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard.

One night I went over to get some dope from some Hollywood tough guy. After I left, my son Scott, who was only fifteen, went over with a baseball bat to kill him. I was laughing out of one eye and crying out of the other. I thought, Who am I kidding?

In Hollywood today, it's cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don't get it.

Hollywood didn't know if I was an actor or a nut or if I was this crazy character I was playing. I had developed an image of being a little bit unusual, different and wild.

There are MAYBE 30 years worth of ideas out there... watch for the feature version of ER in about 25 years... Hollywood has become hopelessly chained to the bottom line.

If you want to be in the automotive business, you go to Detroit, and you figure it out. If you want to be in entertainment, go to where it's at. Go to Hollywood, go to New York.

I don't want to be in Terminator. I don't want to go to Hollywood.

But we did the Pink Panther not in Hollywood, in Italy.

Many other movies, but for me The Professionals is the best I did in Hollywood.

Everybody in Hollywood loves symbolic gestures.

Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.

My mother thought Hollywood was a den of iniquity, and people came to terrible bad ends there.

So I got caught up in the same wave as everybody else and went right out to Hollywood, to make movies.

And I wasn't crazy about Hollywood in those days.

In Hollywood, the rainbow hits the ground for composers.