Quote by Alexander Payne
I dont feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to

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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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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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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Failure
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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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movies
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For now, Im just going to keep doing the work and hope I dont get fired. If people want to put me up on their walls, Ill love it. – Ryan Gosling

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I just hope that I continue to keep a line between my private life and who I play, even if they are closely intertwined, and so Im careful. I dont even know where my line is, but I know I have a line. – Lena Dunham

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Hope is a necessity for normal life and the major weapon against the suicide impulse. – Karl A. Menninger

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I hope to continue writing. I hope to continue teaching. – Jenna Bush

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Under the giving snow blossoms a daring spring. – Terri Guillemets

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One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it wont jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing. – Jeff Goodell

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I used to play sports. Then I realized you can buy trophies. Now I am good at everything. – Demetri Martin

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Meditation is not a means to an end. It is both the means and the end. – Jiddhu Krishnamurti

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