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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.
Alexander Payne
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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
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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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I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
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I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.
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Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.
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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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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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A book is a book, but a movie is a movie. The more faithful you are, the more you'll come up with Harry Potter #1 and #2, which are like filmed books on tape. They're so petrified of turning off the readers that they make no concessions to the fact that they're trying to make a piece of cinema.
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In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.
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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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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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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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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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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
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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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A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
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I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm hands-on in selecting the cast, hands-off to see what they do with their characters, and hands-on again to offer suggestions.
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I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
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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 want studios to be financing director-driven, auteurist cinema, as they did in the '70s. I think it's starting to happen now. Plus, because of how our world has changed politically, I think audiences are demanding more realism. We need to have more stuff in our culture about what is really going on right now.
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I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
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