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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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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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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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movies
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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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Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable. – Samuel Johnson

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Thats whats nice about directing a film and having it done: Theres nothing more I can do about it. Its done. Thats it. All I can do is let it go and hope that people are kind to it. – Tom Hanks

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You cant go around hoping that most people have sterling moral characters. The most you can hope for is that people will pretend that they do. – Fran Lebowitz

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Being an artist is a very long game. It is not a 10-year game. I hope Ill be around making art when Im 80. – Anish Kapoor

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