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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
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Cinema
Ethics
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Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around.
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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
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I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
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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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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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If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
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Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me, and beat very loudly the war drum.
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That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.
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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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Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
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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 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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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.
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Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.
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I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
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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've always approached screenplays and so forth with, How would it really happen? Not What's the movie version? but What's the real-life version? Then I just follow my nose.
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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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I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.
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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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