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In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.

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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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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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A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
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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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The best cinema is about ethics.
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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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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.
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If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.
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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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I think about what movie I would like to see. I don't think of them as a correction or palliative. I certainly am irritated by anything that's shot in the Midwest and filled with these noble people. Oh, they're so good, and they're so honest... I'm not interested in that. I just think of what's right for a movie.
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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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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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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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Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm constantly astonished by those who pray daily, Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me, and beat very loudly the war drum.
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