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

Alexander Payne

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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
Film Director
Film Producer
Screenwriter
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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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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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If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
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Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
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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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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 never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
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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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I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
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Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for Globes and Oscars. So the films aren't being seen just for themselves, but rather in a competitive context.
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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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The best cinema is about ethics.
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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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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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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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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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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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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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