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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
  • Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.
    - Alexander Payne
  • 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
  • The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies, like 'Jaws' or 'The Godfather.'
    - Alexander Payne
  • Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
    - Alexander Payne