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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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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 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 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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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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The best cinema is about ethics.
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Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.
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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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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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The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
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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 voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
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I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
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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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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 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 the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
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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 never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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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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