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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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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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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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What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
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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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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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Just because I make films doesn't mean I think they're great. I just make them and then when I'm done with them I'm just a filmgoer like I always am. They're all lessons. I'm still in film school, honestly. And this one is just a dry run for whatever the next one is.
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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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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'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 still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
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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 want all of my films to belong to me.
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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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The best cinema is about ethics.
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A book is a book, but a movie is a movie. The more faithful you are, the more you'll come up with Harry Potter #1 and #2, which are like filmed books on tape. They're so petrified of turning off the readers that they make no concessions to the fact that they're trying to make a piece of cinema.
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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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Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.
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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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