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The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film s

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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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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Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, youre a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which youre trying to get a film financed. – Alexander Payne

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Life is short. Im 47 years old. Ive got 10 years to go where I can be the best I can be. I want those 10 years to be precious, not like before, cranking two or three movies a year. Ive made a ton of movies in my life, but so what? – Jean Claude Van Damme

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Ill probably pursue doing more movies, but not horror or movies with killers in them. Ill try to stick to happy movies. I want to act and direct like Jodie Foster. I admire her because she went to college and shes still doing the same thing. – Lindsay Lohan

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