Quote by Alexander Payne
I get asked, How can you have such failures in your films? Well, w

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 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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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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movies
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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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A life which does not go into action is a failure. – Arnold J. Toynbee

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Women must try to do things as men have tried. When they fail their failure must be but a challenge to others. – Amelia Earhart

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As a younger player, you always kind of play with that fear of failure. – Jason Giambi

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There is not a fiercer hell than the failure in a great object. – John Keats

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