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The best cinema is about ethics.

Alexander Payne

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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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Omaha
Nebraska
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Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
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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 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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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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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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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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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 think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.
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The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
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I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.
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A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
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I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
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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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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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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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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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I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.
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