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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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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 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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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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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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I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
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The better a novel is, in literary terms, the more you can't be faithful. The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies.
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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 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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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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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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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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The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
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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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In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
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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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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 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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In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.
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What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
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