Pastoral Resources

I realized there was very little in Hollywood I would ever feel comfortable doing. If I kept one foot there and one foot in my Christianity, I would never grow.

Hollywood looks to these young people now to say something to the world. I have nothing against that, I think a lot of people have things to say. But I think you need life experience.

You can take all the sincerity in Hollywood, place it in the navel of a fruit fly and still have room enough for three caraway seeds and a producer's heart.

Hollywood is a place where people from Iowa mistake each other for stars.

An associate producer is the only guy in Hollywood who will associate with a producer.

What's really exciting for me is communicating to other people and not just going somewhere to make a movie. That's Hollywood to me and it would mean nothing.

Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

There's this perception sometimes around here that I'm this Hollywood guy.

I'm not Hollywood. I'm a Quarter Rat. I belong here.

I'm often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I'm glad I didn't go, because if I had I wouldn't have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

Hollywood is like being nowhere and talking to nobody about nothing.

Mr. Reagan spent World War II, the global conflict fought and won by his generation, making training films in Hollywood.

In Hollywood there are a lot of very insecure men running the business.

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

I never pursued Hollywood banging my drum, because I was never in a film big enough to do that.

I stopped courting Hollywood a long time ago.

Hollywood wants press, any kind of press.

I figured that, if you do a vampire movie in Hollywood, you've made it.

In Hollywood, an equitable divorce settlement means each party getting fifty percent of publicity.

If I never do another movie, I will have had the privilege of working on one of the big Hollywood movies with top people, creating a world that can only be described as totally cinematic.