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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 better a novel is, in literary terms, the more you can't be faithful. The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies.
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I want all of my films to belong to me.
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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'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 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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Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.
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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 think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.
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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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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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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
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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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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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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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The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
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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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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 think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
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