Alexander Payne Quotes
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A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.
— Alexander Payne
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
— Alexander Payne
You just never know when you're living in a golden age.
— Alexander Payne
I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.
— Alexander Payne
I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make ... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.
— Alexander Payne
If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
— Alexander Payne
In real life, I myself am kind of a rambling guy. I like to travel.
— Alexander Payne
In a sense, 'Schmidt' is the most Omaha of my films. But have I gotten it right? I'm not sure. Did Fellini get Rome right? Did Ozu get Tokyo right?
— Alexander Payne
If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.
— Alexander Payne
I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
— Alexander Payne
Life mixes tones all the time.
— Alexander Payne
In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.
— Alexander Payne
Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.
— Alexander Payne
When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.
— Alexander Payne
I like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.
— Alexander Payne
The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
— Alexander Payne
I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.
— Alexander Payne
You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery.
— Alexander Payne
Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.
— Alexander Payne
The best actors are always the ones who've directed as well, as they understand all the problems you face.
— Alexander Payne
Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.
— Alexander Payne
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 for laughs.
— Alexander Payne
I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film.
— Alexander Payne
As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.
— Alexander Payne
Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.
— Alexander Payne
The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'
— Alexander Payne
I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.
— Alexander Payne
You look at how many years you have left, and you start to think: 'How many more films do I have in me?'
— Alexander Payne
I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.
— Alexander Payne
I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.
— Alexander Payne
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 stale script.
— Alexander Payne
Acting is a lot easier than people think it is.
— Alexander Payne
I want all of my films to belong to me.
— Alexander Payne
I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.
— Alexander Payne
The best cinema is about ethics.
— Alexander Payne
The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.
— Alexander Payne
Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.
— Kathy Bates
I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film.
— Alexander Payne
I think cynicism is more enduring than sentimentality.
— Alexander Payne
If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.
— Alexander Payne
When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career.
— Alexander Payne
My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.
— Alexander Payne
What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?
— Alexander Payne
The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
— Alexander Payne
