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Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
Alexander Payne
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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
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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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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 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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I think about what movie I would like to see. I don't think of them as a correction or palliative. I certainly am irritated by anything that's shot in the Midwest and filled with these noble people. Oh, they're so good, and they're so honest... I'm not interested in that. I just think of what's right for a movie.
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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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In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.
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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 cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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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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I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.
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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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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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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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The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
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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 don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.
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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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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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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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