Alexander Payne Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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 and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.”

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

“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 for laughs.”

“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 don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world.”

“I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much.”

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

“I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.”