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

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.

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.