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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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Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.
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The best cinema is about ethics.
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I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
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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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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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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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The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
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When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.
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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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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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In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.
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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.
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I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
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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 attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.
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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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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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As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.
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What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a what-if prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.
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The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
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