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In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

Alexander Payne

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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
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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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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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Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
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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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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 always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
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What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
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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 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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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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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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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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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
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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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I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.
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I want all of my films to belong to me.
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Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.
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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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In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.
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