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I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
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 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 think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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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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Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me, and beat very loudly the war drum.
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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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Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.
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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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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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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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Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.
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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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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 action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.
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I want all of my films to belong to me.
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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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Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around.
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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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If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
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