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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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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
Film Director
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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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A lot of documentaries have been made very quickly, but I think they're like frogs in an ecosystem: They're harbingers. Film is always two or three years behind, because it takes so long to write a script, get financing, and get it made. It just takes a while. But I think it's coming. It has to.
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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 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 want all of my films to belong to me.
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I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
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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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Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.
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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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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
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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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My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and you see a scene that's slowing you down in a certain section, but if you remove that scene then, emotionally or story-wise, another scene a half-hour later won't have the same impact. You just get stuck with 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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This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.
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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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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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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
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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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The best cinema is about ethics.
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