#k

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs. ↗

— Alexander Payne

#always #american #being #comedy #cultural

As a conservative who believes in limited government, I believe that the only check on government power in real time is a free and independent press. ↗

— Mike Pence

#believes #check #conservative #free #government

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

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

Comfort rules. You want to be able to sit in a good chair comfortably for a few hours and be able to talk and enjoy a glass of wine. There's nothing worse than sitting in an uncomfortable chair. ↗

— Amanda Pays

#chair #comfort #comfortably #enjoy #few

A book that furnishes no quotations is no book - it is a plaything. ↗

— Thomas Love Peacock

#furnishes #plaything #quotations