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I want all of my films to belong to me.

Alexander Payne

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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
Film Director
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Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.
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This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.
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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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I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
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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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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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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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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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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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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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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 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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Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around.
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The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
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I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.
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The best cinema is about ethics.
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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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