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Alexander Payne
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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
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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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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'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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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 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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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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If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.
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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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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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I want all of my films to belong to me.
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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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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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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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The best cinema is about ethics.
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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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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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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 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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