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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

Topics: 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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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

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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

Topics: Anytime Cast Famous Film Financed Get Happens Lead Movie Need Part Prisoner Someone Trying Which Whoever Window You

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I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.

~Alexander Payne

Topics: Doing Favors Films Get Interested Made My Own Not Interested Only Other Own People Producing Than Work

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The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.

~Alexander Payne

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The best actors are always the ones who've directed as well, as they understand all the problems you face.

~Alexander Payne

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It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes!

~Alexander Payne

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I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.

~Alexander Payne

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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

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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

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Director

Born: February 10th, 1961

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