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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
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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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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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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've always approached screenplays and so forth with, How would it really happen? Not What's the movie version? but What's the real-life version? Then I just follow my nose.
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What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
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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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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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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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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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The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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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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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 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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A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.
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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 love comedies. I take comedy very seriously as a form. It's a serious form, involving a certain way of looking at life, specifically the painful aspects of life. I get asked, How can you have such failures in your films? Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it.
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