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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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American
-
Director
Born:
February 10
, 1961
I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
Alexander Payne
Harvest
,
More
,
Means
'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
Voice
,
Independent
,
Source
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
Behind
,
Rather
,
Very
I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.
Alexander Payne
Most
,
Been
,
Films
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.
Alexander Payne
Think
,
New
,
Badly
There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.'
Alexander Payne
Means
,
Bizarre
,
Sympathetic
Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.
Alexander Payne
Rome
,
Like
,
Omaha
When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career.
Alexander Payne
Star
,
Career
,
Part
I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
Alexander Payne
Always
,
Like
,
Wanted
Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is.
Alexander Payne
Wake Up
,
Pay Attention
,
Need
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.
Alexander Payne
Comedy
,
Always
,
Making
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
Big
,
Country
,
Films
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.
Alexander Payne
Hollywood
,
Like
,
Films
I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.
Alexander Payne
Love
,
Fact
,
Very
I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.
Alexander Payne
Think
,
Big
,
I Think
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
Always
,
Go For It
,
Like
You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
Alexander Payne
Living
,
Never
,
Golden Age
When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.
Alexander Payne
Watch
,
Movie
,
Like
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
Alexander Payne
Deserve
,
Audience
,
Films
The best cinema is about ethics.
Alexander Payne
Best
,
Cinema
,
About
In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
Alexander Payne
Other
,
Making
,
Films
Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.
Alexander Payne
Encourage
,
Jesuits
,
Rigor
The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'
Alexander Payne
Relationships
,
Most
,
Films
What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
Alexander Payne
Filmmaking
,
Dark
You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.
Alexander Payne
Exploration
,
Discovery
,
More
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
More
,
Films
,
Increasingly
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