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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

Topics: 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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When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: Feel Like Machine Made Movie Soul Want Watch You

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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.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: Audience Deserve Films Human Literate Made More Observant Out Slower

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The best cinema is about ethics.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: About Best Cinema Ethics

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In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: Films Life Making Moment Observations Other Share Want

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The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'

~Alexander Payne

Topics: American Couples Films Good Good Things Like Most Reinforce Relationships Shift Things

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Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: Around Behind Component Consumerism Culture Everywhere Film Force Function Important Making Marketing Only Our Primary Rather Sad Sad Thing Story Than Thing Very World Worthiness

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What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

~Alexander Payne

Topics: Dark Filmmaking

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You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: Begin Direct Discovery Exploration Film Intentions More Questions Than 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

Topics: Am Backdrop Capturing Films Go Increasingly Interested Make More Place Vivid Years I Am

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 10th, 1961

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