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
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
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
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
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
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
Just because I make films doesn't mean I think they're great. I just make them and then when I'm done with them… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I want studios to be financing director-driven, auteurist cinema, as they did in the '70s. I think it's starting to happen now.… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I'd love to be a director-for-hire and get a nice paycheck and captain one of those big ships, but I think studios… — 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
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 think about what movie I would like to see. I don't think of them as a correction or palliative. I certainly… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always thinking about how to make cinema, not good… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I'm always… — 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
