Alexander Payne
Happy Sad Confused
Josh Horowitz
4.6 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 9 November 2023
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Alexander Payne knows no movie is finished until the audience sees it in a theater. And he's been entertaining audiences now for 25+ years with films like ELECTION, SIDEWAYS, ABOUT SCHMIDT, THE DESCENDANTS, and now THE HOLDOVERS. He chats about it all with Josh on his first appearance on the podcast.
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| 0:00.0 | I'd love to sell out. We've got a bunch of money. |
| 0:04.0 | We said it, your movies do sometimes make a lot of money. |
| 0:07.0 | It doesn't mean I get it. |
| 0:08.0 | Pay this man. He deserves it all. |
| 0:10.0 | No, no, I'm serious. The phrase is, it has been for for years you get famous in movies but rich on TV. |
| 0:15.0 | And that's pretty much how it is. |
| 0:17.0 | But I do remember meeting Kristen Stewart, yeah, we met at Blinkie's Donuts at the Panga Canyon Boulevard and Dumets in Woodland Hills. |
| 0:25.0 | That you'd go to? |
| 0:26.0 | She was on her way to Brazil for a twilight junket or something. |
| 0:31.0 | She has to meet you at 830 in the morning. I go, can she meet at blinkies? |
| 0:34.0 | Can we go out there? She's like, I need coffee, man. |
| 0:39.0 | Prepare your ears humans. Happy, sad, confused begins now. As Academy Award winner for the last 25 plus years he's made some of my favorite films |
| 0:54.0 | election about Schmidt sideways the descendants and now his latest the holdovers I |
| 1:01.0 | love this movie of this filmmaker I am pleased to welcome Alexander Payne |
| 1:04.4 | to happy second feels for the very first time. Thank you sir thank you thank you. It's good to see you |
| 1:08.8 | we had a conversation a couple of weeks ago and it went well so now we're doing this. |
| 1:12.2 | I passed the first |
| 1:13.0 | test yeah well I don't know what happens after this it's mutual it's mutual no I'm |
| 1:17.5 | thrilled to talk to you about this film and this remarkable career I mean since we |
| 1:21.1 | spoke the good news is people are enjoying your movie actual |
| 1:25.5 | real people and like me like the fake critics the movie's doing very well |
| 1:29.9 | in limited release your platforming it's expanding right well just open a few days ago we |
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