Top 60 Quotes by Alexander Payne

Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.

In the moment of making films, I want to share my observations of life, not of other films.

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

I'm so not interested in producing, other than doing my own work, producing my own films. I only do it as favors, for other people to get their films made.

Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground.

I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.

You look at how many years you have left, and you start to think: 'How many more films do I have in me?'

There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.

Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

Joe E. Lewis said, 'Money doesn't buy happiness but it calms the nerves.' And that is how I feel about a film being well-received.