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I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.
Alexander Payne
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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
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I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
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I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
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I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.
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In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
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When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.
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I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.
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As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.
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Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.
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The better a novel is, in literary terms, the more you can't be faithful. The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies.
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Just because I make films doesn't mean I think they're great. I just make them and then when I'm done with them I'm just a filmgoer like I always am. They're all lessons. I'm still in film school, honestly. And this one is just a dry run for whatever the next one is.
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I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
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If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.
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It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes!
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What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
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I think about what movie I would like to see. I don't think of them as a correction or palliative. I certainly am irritated by anything that's shot in the Midwest and filled with these noble people. Oh, they're so good, and they're so honest... I'm not interested in that. I just think of what's right for a movie.
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Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.
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