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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.
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 still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.
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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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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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Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
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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 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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My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. That's the real goal.
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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 biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
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I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.
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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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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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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 real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.
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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 think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
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Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.
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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
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