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17 Jun, 2014

Open letter to Andreessen

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Payne posts an open letter to Andreessen following one of the VC’s ‘tweetstorms’ supporting robots. Payne admits to being an early fan of Andreessen’s work, but disagrees with his recent viewpoints:

You seem to think everyone’s worried about robots. But what everyone’s worried about is you, Marc. Not just you, but people like you. Robots aren’t at the levers of financial and political influence today, but folks like you sure are. People are scared of so much wealth and control being in so few hands. Consequently, wherever you and other gatekeepers of capital direct your attention – towards robots, 3D printers, biotech, whatever – you’re going to detect a fearful response as people scramble to determine the impact of your decisions and whims.

30 May, 2012

The Talks interview

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Payne gives an interview to The Talks. He discusses seeing bad movies, whether he always wanted to be a director, and how he decides when an idea should be a film.

Did you ever see my film Election? It’s set in a high school with Matthew Broderick. I basically made that whole film for two reasons. One was that I liked the formal challenge of having multiple voiceovers – it has four people telling you the plot of the film in voiceover. But secondly, it has this one shot, and that shot so cracked me up that I wanted to have a whole film just for it.