"Hollywood movies are run on fear and they don't want to make bold choices. They, generally, speaking want to keep things status quo. That's not really interesting for me"
- Kyra Sedgwick
About this Quote
This quote by Kyra Sedgwick talks to the absence of imagination and risk-taking in Hollywood movies. She recommends that Hollywood is driven by worry, which filmmakers are most likely to stick to the status quo than to take strong possibilities. This lack of imagination and risk-taking is not something that interests her. She suggests that Hollywood films are often formulaic and foreseeable, which filmmakers are not happy to take threats to produce something genuinely special and intriguing. This quote speaks with the requirement for more imagination and risk-taking in Hollywood films, and the need for filmmakers to press the borders and create something genuinely special.
This quote is written / told by Kyra Sedgwick somewhere between August 19, 1965 and today. She was a famous Actress from USA.
The author also have 29 other quotes.
"The average Hollywood film star's ambition is to be admired by an American, courted by an Italian, married to an Englishman and have a French boyfriend"
"On a scale of the United States, the Hollywood influence on what comes out, that's not the majority views of across the country. What we read in Us Weekly or People magazine, or Entertainment Tonight, it's not what the majority of the country is thinking"
"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?"
"I teach at USC. I have a big class of 360 kids, only about a fifth of whom are film majors. I don't just show the Hollywood blockbusters. I show independent films, foreign films, documentaries"
"Hollywood is run by people who sit up in their executive office, who are not connected to Mississippi, Alabama, Chicago, South Carolina. They know nothing about that, they don't go to church, and they make their decisions about what they think is right"
