Alexander Payne Quotes
- It seems that our politicians see the world in black and white, so why not our artists? Did Woody Allen's 'Manhattan' have to be in…
- You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
- Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.
- If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that…
- Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's…
- I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.
- I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted…
- Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as…
- 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…
- As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.
- The best cinema is about ethics.
- The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
- What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
- When you're a houseguest and you leave, it's nice to straighten something up or send your hosts a useful gift. And when you leave the…
- A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
- A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always…
- Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
- I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
- I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
- I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.