I get asked, How can you have such failures in your films? Well, what else is life about? Theres some sense of constant failure in something. Humor gives you a distance from it. – Alexander Payne
Even if we die at 100, were still dying young. I want at least 700 years. Theres a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. Im not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years. – Alexander Payne
The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. Thats why so many bad novels can become good movies, like Jaws or The Godfather. – Alexander Payne
When I was in high school, there was Superbad and The Girl Next Door and Wedding Crashers and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something thats smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like Superbad. That movie was so good and so funny. – Miles Teller