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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.
Alexander Payne
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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
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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 think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
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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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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
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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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Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally.
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What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
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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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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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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 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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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'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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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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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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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 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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If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
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In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.
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