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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.
Alexander Payne
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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
Film Director
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Nebraska
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But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about.
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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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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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If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
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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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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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A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
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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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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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I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.
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I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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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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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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In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.
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I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.
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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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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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