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I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
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Jennings
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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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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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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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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 actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.
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In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.
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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 like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
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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 hoping one day I can make one really good film.
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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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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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The best cinema is about ethics.
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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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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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In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
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The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
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If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.
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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 think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
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