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Alexander Payne Quotes
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The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas (Alexander Payne Quotes)
I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three (Alexander Payne Quotes)
What is filmmaking but groping in the dark (Alexander Payne Quotes)
Life mixes tones all the time (Alexander Payne Quotes)
Anytime you cast a movie and you need someone famous in the lead part, you’re a prisoner of whoever happens to be famous in the six - month window in which you’re trying to get a film financed (Alexander Payne Quotes)
I get asked, ‘How can you have such failures in your films?’ Well, what else is life about? There’s some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it (Alexander Payne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That’s why so many bad novels can become good movies, like ‘Jaws’ or ‘The Godfather. ‘ (Alexander Payne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They’re the most important cinematic component (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 black and white? No. But is it fantastic that it was? To see New York like that? Yes! (Alexander Payne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around (Alexander Payne Quotes)
My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I’m always looking for movie ideas. The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. That’s the real goal (Alexander Payne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That’s why so many bad novels can become good movies, like ‘Jaws’ or ‘The Godfather.’ (Alexander Payne Quotes)
Well, that’s what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is. (Alexander Payne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
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 Quotes)
I don’t think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watching silents, and I’m always thinking about how to make cinema, not good talking - although I want good talking. I’m much more interested in framing, composition, and orchestration of bodies in space, and so forth. (Alexander Payne Quotes)
I get asked, ‘How can you have such failures in your films?’ Well, what else is life about? There’s some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it. (Alexander Payne Quotes)
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 Quotes)
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made. (Alexander Payne Quotes)
I don’t feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope. (Alexander Payne Quotes)
I’m so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made. (Alexander Payne Quotes)
If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that’s probably not a very good movie. (Alexander Payne Quotes)
The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like ‘couples’ and ‘relationships.’ (Alexander Payne Quotes)
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 Quotes)