Hollywood

"[I]n Hollywood, I mean they dont know we exist. Theyre barely starting to figure out that there are Mexican Americans. And so I use humor as a way to cope with that and to let our community know that were not invisible, at least not to us."

"Hollywood is not necessarily biased toward a particular political view, but it is biased toward what does and doesnt make money. Since 9/11, the market wanted these almost comic book characterizations of Muslims as the bad guy. But that market has dried up. Its not interesting anymore. They want different narratives about Muslims and Middle Easterners, and networks are looking for ways to do that."

"The place is unreal. The people are unreal. The flowers are unreal—they dont smell. The fruit is unreal. Even the streets and buildings are unreal. I always expected to hear a carpenter shout "Strike" and the whole place come down like a stage set. Thats what Hollywood is—a set, a glaring, gaudy, nightmarish set erected in the desert."

"The voice of Hollywood has grown beyond the border of the United States. Its everywhere."

"Hollywood is like Picassos bathroom."

"If youre looking for historical truth in Hollywood, youre looking in the wrong spot."

"I try, in my life, to follow my heart. I know what it feels like to do things that are soul-decaying. A large aspect of life in Hollywood, in a stereotypic way, I find unbelievably soul-decaying. And I choose, albeit frustratingly to other people in my life, not to expose myself too much to too much of that."

"Every day, to earn my daily bread I go to the market where lies are bought Hopefully I take up my place among the sellers."

"[T]he motion picture community has been as responsible as any for degrading the Indian and making a mockery of his character, describing his as savage, hostile and evil. Its hard enough for children to grow up in this world. When Indian children watch television, and they watch films, and when they see their race depicted as they are in films, their minds become injured in ways we can never know."

"Most of the successful people in Hollywood are failures as human beings."

"In Hollywood, they think drawn animation doesnt work anymore, computers are the way. They forget that the reason computers are the way is that Pixar makes good movies. So everybody tries to copy Pixar. Theyre relying too much on the technology and not enough on the artists."

"No. No, I didnt last long. I went out there for a thousand a week, and I worked Monday, and I got fired Wednesday. The guy that hired me was out of town Tuesday."