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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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Even if we die at 100, were still dying young. I want at least 700 years. Theres a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. Im not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years. – Alexander Payne

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I get asked, How can you have such failures in your films? Well, what else is life about? Theres some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it. – Alexander Payne

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When youre a houseguest and you leave, its nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the planet, its nice to have made a positive contribution. – Alexander Payne

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Ive seen a lot of movies get made where no one has control. No one likes it. – Seth Rogen

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In a lot of movies, especially big studio ones, theyre not constructed in any other way than to get people to like them and then tell their friends. Its a product. – Charlie Kaufman

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I dont get it when you get so much openness about the way movies are made, and the special effects and the behind-the-scenes stuff and all of that. I cant help but feel like this reduces it a little bit. – Christian Bale

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I mean, the trouble with some of the kind of relationship movies Ive done, is theres only so many ways you can shoot a conversation. I was really tired of talking heads. – Lawrence Kasdan

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