I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films.

Alexander Payne

Alexander Payne Quotes

American - Director Born: February 10, 1961

I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing. Alexander Payne

Harvest, More, Means

'Independent' means one thing to me: It means that regardless of the source of financing, the director's voice is extremely present. It's such a pretentious term, but it's auteurist cinema. Director-driven, personal, auteurist... Whatever word you want. Alexander Payne

Voice, Independent, Source

Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world. Alexander Payne

Behind, Rather, Very

I like voice-over in films, and most of my films have been voice-over films. Alexander Payne

Most, Been, Films

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. Alexander Payne

Think, New, Badly

There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they say. Whatever that means. I never engage in that discussion. I never use that word, 'sympathetic.' I just know 'interesting.' Alexander Payne

Means, Bizarre, Sympathetic

Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills. Alexander Payne

Rome, Like, Omaha

When I'm shooting, I don't care who the star is. I have an actor playing a part, and I'm serving the script, not serving anyone's career. Alexander Payne

Star, Career, Part

I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film. Alexander Payne

Always, Like, Wanted

Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is. Alexander Payne

Wake Up, Pay Attention, Need

A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs. Alexander Payne

Comedy, Always, Making

But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about. Alexander Payne

Big, Country, Films

Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally. Alexander Payne

Hollywood, Like, Films

I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much. Alexander Payne

Love, Fact, Very

I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three. Alexander Payne

Think, Big, I Think

That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further. Alexander Payne

Always, Go For It, Like

You just never know when you're living in a golden age. Alexander Payne

Living, Never, Golden Age

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul. Alexander Payne

Watch, Movie, Like

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

Deserve, Audience, Films

The best cinema is about ethics. Alexander Payne

Best, Cinema, About

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

Other, Making, Films

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

Encourage, Jesuits, Rigor

The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.' Alexander Payne

Relationships, Most, Films

What is filmmaking but groping in the dark? Alexander Payne

Filmmaking, Dark

You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery. Alexander Payne

Exploration, Discovery, More

As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films. Alexander Payne

More, Films, Increasingly

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