"There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made."

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Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

Alexander Payne

#Film Quotes #Made Quotes #Audience Quotes

“Humans need justice in the here and now and grace in the thereafter. Justice in the here and now is possible only without freedom,and grace in the thereafter only through the freedom of God.”
“We find no sense in talking about something unless we specify how we measure it; a definition by the method of measuring a quantity is the one sure way of avoiding talking nonsense...”

Source : Hermann Bondi (1980). “Relativity and Common Sense: A New Approach to Einstein”, p.65, Courier Corporation
“Stewart Davenport conscientiously and insightfully re-creates the world of the nineteenth-century political economists, who taught that the principles of international trade manifested, like the laws of biology and physics, the intelligent design of a Divine Creator.”
“The message that "we can't take in everybody" is imperative. At the same time, the decision as to who has a right to asylum needs to be made in Brussels.”
“In war the olive branch of peace is of use. [Lat., Adjuvat in bello pacatae ramus olivae.]”
“Maybe I'll learn how, but the only thing I can do is turn down parts that would hurt my conscience.”
“The best advice I could give anyone is to spend your time working on whatever you are passionate about in life.”

Source : Twitter post from Jun 27, 2013
“For some people, history is simply what your wife looks good standing in front of. Itâ€™s whatâ€™s cast in bronze, or framed in sepia tones, or acted out with wax dummies and period furniture. It takes place in glass bubbles filled with water and chunks of plastic snow; itâ€™s stamped on souvenir pencils and summarized in reprint newspapers. History nowadays is recorded in memorabilia. If you canâ€™t purchase a shopping bag that alludes to something, people wonâ€™t believe it ever happened.”

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