Quote by Alexander Payne
Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead p

Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, youre a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which youre trying to get a film financed. – Alexander Payne

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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true. – Alexander Payne

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I get asked, How can you have such failures in your films? Well, what else is life about? Theres some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it. – Alexander Payne

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Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and its up to us to try to change it… I feel like a preacher! But its really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally. – Alexander Payne

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Being big and famous doesnt get you more freedom, it gets you less. – Robert Wyatt

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The fame thing is interesting because I never wanted to be famous, and I never dreamt I would be famous. – J. K. Rowling

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Ive never sat there and plotted out how I was going to become successful or famous. – Jennifer Aniston

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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability. – Arthur Schopenhauer

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