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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
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I want all of my films to belong to me.
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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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Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
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The worst thing for people to say about your movies is, Yeah, it was pretty good, but it was too damn long..
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Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.
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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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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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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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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
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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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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 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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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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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 have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
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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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Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me, and beat very loudly the war drum.
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Just because I make films doesn't mean I think they're great. I just make them and then when I'm done with them I'm just a filmgoer like I always am. They're all lessons. I'm still in film school, honestly. And this one is just a dry run for whatever the next one is.
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The best cinema is about ethics.
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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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