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Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the wor

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and thats a very sad thing. Its film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and thats everywhere around the world. – 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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When youre a houseguest and you leave, its nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, its nice to have made a positive contribution. – Alexander Payne

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positive
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Alexander Payne
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Since its based on my parents, its more emotionally close to me than some of my more surreal plays. And then I like the balance of the comic and the sad. It should play as funny, but you should care about the characters and feel sad for them. – Christopher Durang

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It can make you sad to look at pictures from your youth. So theres a trick to it. The trick is not to look at the later pictures. – Jerry Stiller

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God is in the sadness and the laughter, in the bitter and the sweet. – Neale Donald Walsch

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sad

Its not a struggle, but sometimes when youre gone for a month or two, you start to miss your friends. I love acting so much that it fills that gap of being sad about not being able to see my friends. – Willow Shields

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sad

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Celebrate what you want to see more of. – Tom Peters

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Loneliness is my least favorite thing about life. The thing that Im most worried about is just being alone without anybody to care for or someone who will care for me. – Anne Hathaway

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