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.

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.

I love Hindi films.

Most detective story readers are an educated audience and know there are only a certain number of plots. The interest lies in what the writer does with them.