40 Alexander Payne Quotes for You to Enjoy

Alexander Payne

American Director

Born: Feb 10, 1961

Cinema Films Like Me Think You

Related authors: David Lynch George Lucas Martin Scorsese Spike Lee Steven Spielberg Tim Burton Woody Allen

The best cinema is about ethics. Alexander Payne

Best Cinema Ethics About

Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like. Alexander Payne

Way Rigor Like Encourage Intellectual Jesuits

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 a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world. Alexander Payne

Sad Culture World Important Our Marketing Everywhere Worthiness Component Rather Only Consumerism Sad Thing Primary Force Around Making Very Than Behind Story Function Film Thing

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 you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day. Alexander Payne

Love Time Day You Looking Back See About Relive Could Weep Go Were Falling Falling In Love Banal Did Forgotten Things

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about. Alexander Payne

Problem Country Big Think Films Has-Been About Generally Days Making Been Lousy Big Problem Quite Just Quite A While While Whole

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three. Alexander Payne

Three Big Think Only Decent Peter

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further. Alexander Payne

Too Much Too Back Further Easier Tell Push Like Always How Go Go For It Them Then Much Really Actor Bring

You just never know when you're living in a golden age. Alexander Payne

You Age Living Never Know Just Golden Golden Age

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul. Alexander Payne

You Soul Made Machine Feel Like Want Movie Watch

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made. Alexander Payne

Made Films Out Slower More Observant Audience Human Literate Deserve

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films. Alexander Payne

Life Films Other Share Observations Making Want Moment

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark? Alexander Payne

Dark Filmmaking

I'm hoping one day I can make one really good film. Alexander Payne

Good Day One Day Hoping Make Really Film Good Film

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs. Alexander Payne

Needs Youth Degree Energy Some Still Which Filmmaker

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true. Alexander Payne

Fear Will True Come Course Die Biggest Regrets

They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by. Alexander Payne

Work Time You Say Relevant General Given My Time Sincere Period Go Decades Want They Say Zeitgeist Aware Honest

I want all of my films to belong to me. Alexander Payne

Me Films Want Belong

My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. Alexander Payne

Looking Flying Out Ideas Always Flag Movie

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. Alexander Payne

Endeavor Finding Part Ideas Whole Hardest Hardest Part

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years. Alexander Payne

Book World Thought Could Never Years Story Whole Million Million Years

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