Alexander Payne Quotes

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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You would own the negative after seven years. The company would actually own the film. It's kind of a financial and moral thing about owning your own creative work.

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To be fair-not that I really care about being fair to anyone, ever-but to be fair, I'm sure that same ratio of bad films to good probably exists in every studio.

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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.

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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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