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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I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make… In fact, I dont like the movies I make very much. – 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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I thought the more famous I became, the more friendships I would have, but the opposite was true. – Alanis Morissette

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Its funny – nowadays people that are famous get chased by paparazzi. They have this fame, but they dont have the money to hide from it. – Matt LeBlanc

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Yeah, people following me down the street and at the airport and all that. I cant imagine what it must be like for people who are, you know, actually famous. – Ellen Page

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Barack Obama is the most famous living person in the history of the world. – Dee Dee Myers

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