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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
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I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.
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This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research.
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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 definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
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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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Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we're talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.
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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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Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.
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Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
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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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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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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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The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
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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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I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm hands-on in selecting the cast, hands-off to see what they do with their characters, and hands-on again to offer suggestions.
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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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What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
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I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.
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