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

Alexander Payne

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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Living
Never
Golden
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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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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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If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
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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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If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.
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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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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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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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I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.
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I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
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Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.
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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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When I'm introduced as a two-time Oscar winner, I'm happy that a film of mine has found an audience and some acclaim because that keeps me in business. A filmmaker's greatest concern is the ability to make future films, so it helps keep me in business.
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I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.
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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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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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Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.
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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 think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
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I want all of my films to belong to me.
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