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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
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Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for Globes and Oscars. So the films aren't being seen just for themselves, but rather in a competitive context.
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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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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.
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I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
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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 want all of my films to belong to me.
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The worst thing for people to say about your movies is, Yeah, it was pretty good, but it was too damn long..
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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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I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.
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If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
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The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
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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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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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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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What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
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I love comedies. I take comedy very seriously as a form. It's a serious form, involving a certain way of looking at life, specifically the painful aspects of life. I get asked, How can you have such failures in your films? Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
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Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.
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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.
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