On one level, the film can be seen as the director's declaration of independence from, if not outright hostility toward, the Hollywood system.

The following table illustrates the categories commonly used to characterize the Hollywood system.

The program was designed to take students directly into the Hollywood system as proficient writer/directors.

"Apparently the old Hollywood system of exploiting the little guy is not dead."

"Borat" was to some extent made outside the Hollywood system.

The festival also highlighted the work of regional filmmakers who worked outside the Hollywood system.

They have helped him work around a Hollywood system that many critics contend has failed to present a range of black characters with interior lives.

He had successfully cracked the Hollywood system, and getting work was no longer a problem.

In the Hollywood system, an actor can never really become a character: he is a star, no matter the quality of his performance.

One worked with the Hollywood system, the other against it.