American - Director | February 10, 1961 -
I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
Alexander Payne
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The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'
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Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
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The best actors are always the ones who've directed as well, as they understand all the problems you face.
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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!
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I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
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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.
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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.
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