109 Quotes by Alexander Payne

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

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.

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,

I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.

I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.

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

If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.