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I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life th

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular. – Alexander Payne

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Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and its up to us to try to change it… I feel like a preacher! But its really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally. – Alexander Payne

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Alexander Payne
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I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make… In fact, I dont like the movies I make very much. – Alexander Payne

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Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it, or making a mould of my sisters head using alginating plaster. – J. J. Abrams

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Heres the thing about movies, all movies end up on television. Thats their life. Whether you like it or not, I dont care how much money you spend on it, or how big or broad the film is, or who the actors are in it, eventually its all coming out of the box. – Greg Kinnear

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If you really want to be competitive in todays market you have to be in movies that make money. – Halle Berry

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