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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."

Alexander Payne on Movies

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  • "Am I a romantic? I've seen 'Wuthering Heights' ten times. I'm a romantic."

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  • "You know what your problem is, it's that you haven't seen enough movies - all of life's riddles are answered in the movies."

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  • "This film cost $31 million. With that kind of money I could have invaded some country."

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  • "Movies can and do have tremendous influence in shaping young lives in the realm of entertainment towards the ideals and objectives of normal adulthood."

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More quotes by Alexander Payne

  • "You just never know when you're living in a golden age."

  • "I get asked, 'How can you have such failures in your films?' Well, what else is life about? There's some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it."

  • "Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six-month window in which you're trying to get a film financed."

  • "The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true."

  • "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."

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