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Alexander Payne Quotes

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.

Alexander Payne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: February 10, 1961

Topics

Happiness Money Feel Said Buy Film

I'm not going to lie to you: being Speaker of the State Assembly is the best job I've ever had in my entire career. But you know, I got into politics 'cause I wanted to make a difference, and I was always raised that one person could make a difference.

Jeff Fitzgerald

Best Politics Job Lie You Career

I don't think it's any sort of stretch of the imagination to say that, very, very realistically, each single bitcoin, if bitcoin becomes popular, will have to be worth at least tens of thousands of dollars.

Imagination Think Worth Say Will

When my parents were divorced in the late '70s, early '80s, the climate was that you should screw over your ex as much as possible - get the worst lawyer in the world, all that. That's not what people are out to do anymore. It feels cruddy to try and destroy each other just because you're breaking up.

Michaela Watkins

Parents People World Lawyer You

People go 'You look a lot like Minnie Driver.' Once I said, 'Thanks, Minnie is a great actress.' But, it blew up in my face. This person said, 'Nah, didn't like the last movie she did.'

Great People Face You Look Person

'My Fair Godmother's' movie rights sold to the producer who did 'Freaky Friday,' 'Princess Diaries,' and one of my favorite movies - 'Sky High.'

Janette Rallison

Sky Friday Princess Movies High

After a sound public education, I attended Penn and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. After being drafted into the military and studying Indonesian, I emerged as a writer, not a painter.

Education Public Education Sound Arts

The reason it takes me so long to make a film, the reason it gets so difficult, is that I'm trying to think of every film as the last one I will ever make so it can be the best it can possibly be. I don't want to have regrets or excuses or think, 'I can do better next time.'

Time Best Me Think Better Excuses

To stand there and do nothing on film is probably the hardest thing to do.

Stand Nothing Film Hardest Thing

I personally think that money can do very little. And this has been my experience all across.

Money Experience Think Little Been

I've been doing mostly independent films, and things like 'Goal' give me a chance to have more options.

Me Chance Doing Goal Independent

The first phase of American political history was characterized by the conflict between the Federalists and the Republicans, and it resulted in the complete triumph of the latter.

History Conflict American Political

I am against the whole cliche of the moment.

Moment I Am Against Whole Cliche Am

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