Venality Quotes

Hollywood for the most part aimed at the lowest common denominator. It`s conceived in venality, it`s motivated by pandering to the public, by making a lot of money. People like Ingmar Bergman thought about life, and they had feelings, and they wanted to dramatize them and engage one in a dialogue. I felt I couldn`t easily be engaged by the nonsense that came out of Hollywood.

We Americans have always considered Hollywood, at best, a sinkhole of depraved venality. And, of course, it is. It is not a protective monastery of aesthetic truth. It is a place where everything is incredibly expensive.