American - Director | February 10, 1961 -
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
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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.
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I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big 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.
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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.
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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.
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In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.
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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.
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What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
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You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.
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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.
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