American - Director | February 10, 1961 -
'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
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The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'
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You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
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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.
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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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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.
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The best cinema is about ethics.
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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?'
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When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, it's nice to have made a positive contribution.
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I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
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If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.
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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.
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