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The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.
Alexander Payne
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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
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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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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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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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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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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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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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A lot of documentaries have been made very quickly, but I think they're like frogs in an ecosystem: They're harbingers. Film is always two or three years behind, because it takes so long to write a script, get financing, and get it made. It just takes a while. But I think it's coming. It has to.
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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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In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
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My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and you see a scene that's slowing you down in a certain section, but if you remove that scene then, emotionally or story-wise, another scene a half-hour later won't have the same impact. You just get stuck with it.
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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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I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
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I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
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Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around.
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What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a what-if prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.
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I want all of my films to belong to me.
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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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