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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.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: About Back Banal Could Day Did Falling Falling In Love Forgotten Go Looking Love Relive See Things Time Weep Were You

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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

Topics: Badly Better Crafted Film Great Great Idea Idea Just Mistakes New Script Spelling Stale Than Think Times Ton I Think

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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: Age Golden Golden Age Just Know Living Never You

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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: Encourage Intellectual Jesuits Like Rigor Way

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You look at how many years you have left, and you start to think: 'How many more films do I have in me?'

~Alexander Payne

Topics: Films How Left Look Many Me More Start Think Years You

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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

Topics: 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

Topics: About Been Big Big Problem Country Days Films Generally 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

Topics: American Become Cesspool Change Cinema Feel Films Formula Future Hollywood Like Me Personally Preacher Really Responsible True Try Up Us I Feel I Feel Like

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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

Topics: Fact In Fact Just Like Look Love Make Mean Movies Much Very I Love

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I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: Big Decent Only Peter Think Three I Think

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 10th, 1961

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