Alexander Payne

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

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 definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

I love Hindi films.

If every time you engage in a sex act, you go into a confession box, you will never accept your own sexuality.

I detest self-regard. If my work has taught me anything, it is that self-aggrandisement is completely unhistorical.