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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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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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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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Sometimes in movies, I still have to be the hero, but its not all that important to me anymore. – Dennis Quaid

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One of the joys of going to the movies was that it was trashy, and we should never lose that. – Oliver Stone

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I love John Waters. Theres stuff in it thats beyond the boundaries of my taste, but his movies have always been like that. – Tracey Ullman

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Im glad movies arent going to please everybody, they cant. But what they have to be is recognisable. I dont equate myself with a master painter, but I think you can recognise my films. – Kevin Costner

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