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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.
Alexander Payne
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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
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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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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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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 think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.
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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 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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I want all of my films to belong 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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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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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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Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.
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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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