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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 novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. Thats why so many bad novels can become good movies, like Jaws or The Godfather. – Alexander Payne

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I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular. – Alexander Payne

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When youre famous, you dont get to meet people because they want you to like them when the present themselves to you, and you dont see the real people. – Cass Elliot

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Its not my goal to be a famous actor. – Gavin DeGraw

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The big thing that everyone forgets, youre famous and on TV and everything, but I think theres something very rewarding to be able to write a song, record it, and have it turn out as you heard it in your head, or even better. – Phil Collen

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When I started out, I didnt have any desire to be an actress or to learn how to act. I just wanted to be famous. – Katharine Hepburn

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