Quotes by Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne

A lot of documentaries have been made very quickly, but I think they’re like frogs in an ecosystem: They’re harbingers. Film is always two or three years behind, because it takes so long to write a script, get financing, and get it made. It just takes a while. But I think it’s coming. It has to.

Long

Thinking

Writing

A lot of people get stuck, like, “Oh, if it’s made by a studio, it can’t be independent.” Often they link it to the source of financing, or how it’s distributed, but I don’t really know how you can. A filmmaker will take his money from anywhere. It doesn’t matter.

Independent

People

Stuck

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.

Laughing

Pitfalls

Tired

Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for Globes and Oscars. So the films aren’t being seen just for themselves, but rather in a competitive context.

Adults

Battle

Years

All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you want the acting to be as efficient as possible on the set, and you have enough coverage to manipulate the rhythm in the editing room, and then in the editing room you want to find the quickest possible version, even if it’s a leisurely paced film. I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It’s all about editing.

Editing

Mean

Writing

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

Film

Vivid

Years

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.

Country

Problem

Thinking

Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we’re talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.

Distance

Honesty

Talking

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

Easier

Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I’m constantly astonished by those who pray daily, “Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me,” and beat very loudly the war drum.

Forgive Me

People

War

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Actors

Adults

Age

Appreciate

Artist

Battle

Black And White

Cartoon

Character

Cinema

Computer

Country

Courses

Cutting

Degrees

Dies

Different

Distance

Dramatic

Easier

Editing

Editors

Energy

Epic

Faithful

Falling In Love

Film

Forgive Me

Forgotten

Giving

Go Back In Time

Golden

Golden Age

Good Films

Good Movie

Hands

Happens

Helping

Honesty

Host

Ideas

Independent

Jobs

Laughing

Life Is

Literature

Long

Made

Mean

Mistake

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Quotes by Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne

A lot of people get stuck, like, “Oh, if it’s made by a studio, it can’t be independent.” Often they link it to the source of financing, or how it’s distributed, but I don’t really know how you can. A filmmaker will take his money from anywhere. It doesn’t matter.

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.

Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for Globes and Oscars. So the films aren’t being seen just for themselves, but rather in a competitive context.

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.

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.

Comedy is a wonderful device for distance that allows us to look at what we’re talking about with some degree of distance and hopefully with a bit more perspective and honesty. With many exceptions, a movie with no jokes is far less appealing to me.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I’m constantly astonished by those who pray daily, “Forgive me my sins as I forgive those who sin against me,” and beat very loudly the war drum.

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