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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
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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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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 cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
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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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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
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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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That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further.
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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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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
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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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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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Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for Globes and Oscars. So the films aren't being seen just for themselves, but rather in a competitive context.
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In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.
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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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A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
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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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If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good 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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