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A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.
~ Alexander Payne
Also
Always
American
Being
Comedy
Cultural
Encouraged
Get
Go
Laughs
Making
Tired
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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
About
Been
Big
Big Problem
Country
Days
Films
Generally
Has-Been
Just
Lousy
Making
Problem
Quite
Quite A While
Think
While
Whole
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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.
~ Alexander Payne
American
Become
Cesspool
Change
Cinema
Feel
Films
Formula
Future
Hollywood
I Feel
I Feel Like
Like
Me
Personally
Preacher
Really
Responsible
True
Try
Up
Us
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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.
~ Alexander Payne
Fact
I Love
In Fact
Just
Like
Look
Love
Make
Mean
Movies
Much
Very
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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.
~ Alexander Payne
Badly
Better
Crafted
Film
Great
Great Idea
I Think
Idea
Just
Mistakes
New
Script
Spelling
Stale
Than
Think
Times
Ton
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I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.
~ Alexander Payne
Big
Decent
I Think
Only
Peter
Think
Three
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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.
~ Alexander Payne
Actor
Always
Back
Bring
Easier
Further
Go
Go For It
How
Like
Much
Push
Really
Tell
Them
Then
Too
Too Much
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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
~ Alexander Payne
Age
Golden
Golden Age
Just
Know
Living
Never
You
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'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist... Whatever word you want.
~ Alexander Payne
Cinema
Director
Extremely
Financing
Independent
Me
Means
One Thing
Personal
Present
Pretentious
Regardless
Source
Term
Thing
Voice
Want
Whatever
Word
You
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A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
~ Alexander Payne
Book
Could
Million
Million Years
Never
Story
Thought
Whole
World
Years
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Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed.
~ Alexander Payne
Anytime
Cast
Famous
Film
Financed
Get
Happens
Lead
Movie
Need
Part
Prisoner
Someone
Trying
Which
Whoever
Window
You
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As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.
~ Alexander Payne
Am
Backdrop
Capturing
Films
Go
I Am
Increasingly
Interested
Make
More
Place
Vivid
Years
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Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
~ Alexander Payne
Becomes
Each
Each One
Easier
Get
Ground
Movies
Off
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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.
~ Alexander Payne
Books
Die
Dying
Even
Going
Least
Lot
Movies
Read
See
Squeeze
Still
Travelling
Want
Years
Young
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I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
~ Alexander Payne
1960s
Always
Film
Great
Italian
Italian Film
Like
Sideways
Wanted
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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.
~ Alexander Payne
About
Definitely
Directing
Editing
Filmmaking
Find
Harvest
Material
Means
More
More And More
Writing
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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.
~ Alexander Payne
Able
Am
Because
Despair
Feel
Films
Gives
Hope
I Am
Make
Me
Want
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I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I'm much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth.
~ Alexander Payne
About
Although
Always
Bodies
Cinema
Comedy
Composition
Forth
Framing
Good
How
I Was Raised
Interested
Make
More
Much
Raised
Space
Talking
Think
Thinking
Verbal
Visual
Want
Watching
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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.
~ Alexander Payne
American
Big
Cartoons
Cinema
Entire
Entire World
Just
Made
Want
World
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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.
~ Alexander Payne
About
Asked
Constant
Distance
Else
Failure
Failures
Films
Get
Gives
How
Humor
Life
Sense
Some
Something
Well
You
Your
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