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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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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Future
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Even if we die at 100, were still dying young. I want at least 700 years. Theres a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. Im not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years. – Alexander Payne

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movies
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I dont feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope. – Alexander Payne

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It was deeply important for me to understand where Mandela came from. Because we know where he was going, and thats a famous story, but who was he? Where did he come from? What was his upbringing? – Idris Elba

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Forget about being world famous, its hard enough just getting the automatic doors at the supermarket to acknowledge our existence. – Doug Coupland

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famous

I had a flight trainer who is one of the biggest and most famous helicopter pilots the world. – Izabella Scorupco

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And my marriage was perfect when I wasnt famous. – Damon Wayans

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Take away the right to say “fuck” and you take away the right to say “fuck the government.” – Lenny Bruce

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