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“As with wines, there are vintage years for films because of their significance. It’s true of ’39, ’40, ’46 and ’74 … Whatever the quality that history decides, the consistent level of ambition was higher in the ’70s… Filmmakers thought people would see...

  Hattie McDaniel, Denver 1910, age 15. What is the thing that Hollywood demands most? Sincerity. No place in the world will pay such a high price for this admirable trait. We all respect sincerity in our friends and acquaintances, but Hollywood is willing to pay for it. I was little more than a kid but I was old in show business. I won a medal in dramatic art when...

“I hope I am shitting myself over the characters I play for the rest of my life. Because the day I go, ‘Oh yeah, that’s going to be a piece of pie,’ why fucking bother? If you do that, you do not learn,” – Kate Winslet, V Magazine, 2011 It gets better after the cut. ...

  “Hollywood can’t do anything but what Hollywood does, which is hope that everybody who is doing well gets caught in some secret nightmare… Hollywood is a town that doesn’t just want you to fail, it wants you to die.” – David Geffen, quoted in Vanity Fair, 1991 ...