"Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally."

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Alexander Payne

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“After the survivor of the Spanish conquest has told his life's story he is convicted by the Inquisition: He posted no brief in defense or mitigation of his offenses, and when he was most solemnly advised by the Court President of the dire consequences he faced if found guilty, Juan Damasceno volunteered only one comment: "It will mean I do not go to the Christian heaven?" He was told that that would indeed be the worst of his punishments: that he would most assuredly not go to Heaven. At which, his smile sent a thrill of horror through every soul of the Court.”
“I cannot believe that the American people and the people they elected would use the Constitution to stifle any group's rights.”
“I think it's important to get your surroundings as well as yourself into a positive state - meaning surround yourself with positive people, not the kind who are negative and jealous of everything you do.”
“Once we were happy in our own country and we were seldom hungry, for then the two-leggeds and the four-leggeds lived together like relatives, and there was plenty for them and for us. But the Wasichus came, and they have made little islands for us and other little islands for the four-leggeds, and always these islands are becoming smaller, for around them surges the gnawing flood of the Wasichu; and it is dirty with lies and greed.”
“Sometimes I'd see my father, walking past my building on his way to another nowhere. I could have given him a key, offered a piece of my floor. A futon. A bed. But I never did. If I let him inside I would become him, the line between us would blur, my own slow-motion car wreck would speed up. The slogan on the side of a moving company truck read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING PLACES--modified by a vandal or a disgruntled employee to read TOGETHER WE ARE GOING DOWN. If I went to the drowning man the drowning man would pull me under. I couldn't be his life raft.”
“Persistence is the most powerful force on earth, it can move mountains.”
“How can you stand touching her?â€ my sister blurted, staring at our clasped hands. â€œDoesnâ€™t that hurt?â€ I seized on the change of topic. â€œThese gloves are specialized rubber. They block the current.â€ Gretchenâ€™s gaze traveled over Vlad, disbelief still stamped on her features. â€œYeah, but how do you two do anything else, unless he has a special, currentrepelling glove for hisâ€”â€ â€œGretchen!â€ my father cut her off. My cheeks felt hot. Donâ€™t say a word, I thought to Vlad, seeing his chest tremble with suppressed laughter. â€œHe has a natural immunity,â€ I gritted out.”
“Into The Woods was... a lot of running around in the woods! I can't wait to see the show again. People didn't realize it back then, but kids still come up to me-young people-and they talk about it. It really made its mark.”

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