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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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Omaha
Nebraska
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I love comedies. I take comedy very seriously as a form. It's a serious form, involving a certain way of looking at life, specifically the painful aspects of life. I get asked, How can you have such failures in your films? Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
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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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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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I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.
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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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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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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 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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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 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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The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
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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 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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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
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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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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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If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
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Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.
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