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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

Alexander Payne

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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
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The best cinema is about ethics.
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I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
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Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
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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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The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
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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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Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.
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A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.
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I think about what movie I would like to see. I don't think of them as a correction or palliative. I certainly am irritated by anything that's shot in the Midwest and filled with these noble people. Oh, they're so good, and they're so honest... I'm not interested in that. I just think of what's right for a movie.
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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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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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But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.
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I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.
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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 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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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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I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
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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 like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
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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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