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Making Quotes by Alexander Payne
- Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as…
- 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…
- I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
- In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
- The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.
- 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…
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