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I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.

Alexander Payne

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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
Writer
Omaha
Nebraska
Hoping
Film
Really
Make
Good

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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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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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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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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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I want all of my films to belong to me.
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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 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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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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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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I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
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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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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
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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 like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.
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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 definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
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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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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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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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