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But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about. ↗

— Alexander Payne

#been #big #big problem #country #days

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. ↗

— Alexander Payne

#american cinema #become #cesspool #change #cinema

When I look back at the 1980s I pinch myself. Did I really do all that? ↗

— Cynthia Payne

#did #i #look #myself #pinch

Not drunk is he who from the floor - Can rise alone and still drink more; But drunk is They, who prostrate lies, Without the power to drink or rise. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#drink #drunk #floor #lies #more

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three. ↗

— Alexander Payne

#decent #i #i think #only #peter

My biographer said that my parties reminded them of a vicarage tea party, with sex thrown in. ↗

— Cynthia Payne

#parties #party #reminded #said #sex

By 1980, when I came out of prison, The Sun did a campaign to stop putting vice girls in prison. We've talked about it ever since and nothing has been done about it. ↗

— Cynthia Payne

#been #came #campaign #did #done

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#away #best #convince #could #failed

Galvanised into action by the second trial, I was determined to change Britain's archaic sex laws. ↗

— Cynthia Payne

#archaic #britain #change #determined #i

I'm glad I haven't married - I crave excitement. ↗

— Cynthia Payne

#excitement #glad #haven #i #married