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.

Corresponding to the image of a monotheistic God is monogamous marriage. Marriage based on exclusive and definitive love becomes the icon of the relationship between God and his people and vice versa.

It's hard to imagine anyone interested in film not being a fan of Alfred Hitchcock because he's such a key influence on the entire history of cinema - it's hard to escape his shadow.

I'm a big action junkie. I grew up on the '80s action movies - the bad ones and the good ones.