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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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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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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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A Bugs Life is a really funny movie and the characters have such different personalities. The movie is happy and then gets really sad and Im like, Whoa, Im feeling this way and this movie is about bugs! – Booboo Stewart

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No not really, it is just like real life. Not everyday you are happy and not everyday you are sad. – Dakota Fanning

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Bob summed it up best when he was on his knees at the end of the night saying, Dont trust in Guided By Voices. You were there was the show awful or something? I know it was sloppy, but theyre not really that tight anyway, but was it embarrassing, was it sad? – Kim Deal

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Ive never met a woman who thinks theyve got a good enough figure – however perfect they look – which is sad, because no one else can see these perceived flaws theyre entirely internal. – LWren Scott

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