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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
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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Omaha
Nebraska
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What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a what-if prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.
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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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If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
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A lot of people get stuck, like, Oh, if it's made by a studio, it can't be independent. Often they link it to the source of financing, or how it's distributed, but I don't really know how you can. A filmmaker will take his money from anywhere. It doesn't matter.
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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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Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.
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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
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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 like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
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The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
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Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
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Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
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What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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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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In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms.
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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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I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm hands-on in selecting the cast, hands-off to see what they do with their characters, and hands-on again to offer suggestions.
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I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.
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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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