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Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

Alexander Payne

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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Still
Dying
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In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms.
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Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
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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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In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.
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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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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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I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
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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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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.
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The best cinema is about ethics.
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When I'm introduced as a two-time Oscar winner, I'm happy that a film of mine has found an audience and some acclaim because that keeps me in business. A filmmaker's greatest concern is the ability to make future films, so it helps keep me in business.
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The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
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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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If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.
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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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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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I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
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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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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
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