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
Im fully aware that things that resonate and become real hits are the exception to the rule, so much so that Ive wired myself for failure. – Ron Perlman
Id love to be a saxophonist. I dont know why, but I pretend Im the saxophonist when I listen to music. I have about as much chance playing the sax as I do learning how to fly. – Richard Price
While the spirit of neighborliness was important on the frontier because neighbors were so few, it is even more important now because our neighbors are so many. – Lady Bird Johnson
