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.

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.

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

I love Hindi films.