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I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

Alexander Payne

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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
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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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If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
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I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.
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The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
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But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.
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A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.
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In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.
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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'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'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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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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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 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 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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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 like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
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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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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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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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