Sean McVay Quotes

It's changing a bit, but the thing in LA is everyone is either in the industry, or knows someone who is in the industry. So, they don't let on that they recognize you, that's what I've found out.

I'm from Los Angeles, and growing up here, I've always been enamored by Hollywood and the industry. It's just something I grew up with, and I loved it.

Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.'

When you're in Los Angeles, nobody bats an eye, they're so used to seeing actors, they just act really cool.

I didn't have a sense of being in a show business family or of being different, partly because Los Angeles is an industry town, so you don't think about it as being special.

I was raised in Hollywood and knew, from as early as grammar school, classmates who were in the business.

In L.A. everyone is in the entertainment industry, so you're forced to think about work.

Hollywood held this double lure for me, tremendous sums of money for work that required no more effort than a game of pinochle.

I still giggle when someone asks for my address and I say, 'Hollywood, Los Angeles.'

You'd be surprised how many movie stars still care about the work.

I work in show business - there's nothing that shocks me anymore!

Just as many people flee Hollywood as those who flock to it. Hollywood can be an acquired taste.

Oh, well, in Los Angeles everybody is an actor, or a producer, or a writer, or a director, or an agent, or... So everybody understands the hours.

I like L.A., I like the fans, I like to come out here to work.

When you're in L.A., and you're making movies and that kind of stuff, you don't really get a sense sometimes, I think, what the fans are like.

When you're working with people you've seen in hundreds of films... it's a bit crazy to step outside yourself for a minute and think, 'This is surreal.' But I try not to get too bogged down in that.

I'm very leery of show business, having been in Los Angeles for the last 10 years. Buzz is a dangerous thing that I've heard applied to a lot of people that I've since not heard of again.

You meet people in Hollywood that are famous, and you're not sure what they got famous for.

I watched movies, obviously, just like anybody else, but there was nothing to make me think, 'I'm going to go to L.A. and become a movie star,' or anything like that.

My whole family are in the entertainment industry. It is always something I was used to; I was quite lucky growing up. To all my friends, it was quite exciting, but to me it was quite normal.

Los Angeles is much like Mumbai, the film industry rules the city over most other professions, so it feels like home.

I don't admire actors so much, actually.

I like travelling and if I have to come to Hollywood to make a movie I will, but otherwise I'd never move there. It's very much an industry town and that doesn't really interest me.

Australians aren't really that crazy; in L.A. you get a little crazier. From my experience at least, Aussies don't really care that much about celebrities or things like that.

When I was 23, I went to work for Jack Nicholson reading scripts. Later, I was married to a production designer named Richard Sylbert. So I lived in Los Angeles for ten years.