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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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Joe E. Lewis said, Money doesnt buy happiness but it calms the nerves. And that is how I feel about a film being well-received. – Alexander Payne

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Movies are about escape. – George A. Romero

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The cardinal sin in sports, what could really wreck it, is not cheating to win, which has gone on forever, but cheating to lose. That threatens a fundamental aspect of sports appeal, which is their spontaneity. If games are fixed, theyre no different from movies theyre scripted. – Michael Mandelbaum

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Awards were made in Hollywood, in whatever the time it was created. Theyre to promote each others movies. You give me an award, I give you an award and people will believe that we are great movies and theyll go to see them. Its still the same. – Javier Bardem

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Ive been in enough movies to know that when youre on the set and you start shooting, youre looking at playback and you get a sense of what its going to be like. – Mark Wahlberg

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