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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.
Alexander Payne
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Alexander Payne
Age: 63
Born: 1961
Born: February 10
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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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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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Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
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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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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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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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Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.
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A lot of documentaries have been made very quickly, but I think they're like frogs in an ecosystem: They're harbingers. Film is always two or three years behind, because it takes so long to write a script, get financing, and get it made. It just takes a while. But I think it's coming. It has to.
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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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The best cinema is about ethics.
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There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
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Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.
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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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I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
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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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