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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
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.
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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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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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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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I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.
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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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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 think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
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Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
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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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If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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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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I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, How would it really happen? Not What's the movie version? but What's the real-life version? Then I just follow my nose.
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My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and you see a scene that's slowing you down in a certain section, but if you remove that scene then, emotionally or story-wise, another scene a half-hour later won't have the same impact. You just get stuck with it.
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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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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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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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