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I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
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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 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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