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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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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
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I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
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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 like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
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Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.
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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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