I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I love comedies. I take comedy very seriously as a form. It's a serious form, involving a certain way of looking at… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Adult movies with any artistic credit are released in the last quarter of the year and expected to gird for battle for… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
A lot of documentaries have been made very quickly, but I think they're like frogs in an ecosystem: They're harbingers. Film is… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you're a prisoner of whoever happens to be… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
The thing is, right now the films don't need to be overtly political to be about our times. We also need films… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
The better a novel is, in literary terms, the more you can't be faithful. The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature.… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Whenever I'm asked about independent cinema, I think of what Fidel Castro said during the Cold War about the league of non-aligned… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm hands-on in… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I think about what movie I would like to see. I don't think of them as a correction or palliative. I certainly am irritated… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
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