Quote by Alexander Payne
Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground. - Alex

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

Other quotes by Alexander Payne

I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular. – Alexander Payne

Category:
movies
Read Quote

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

Category:
movies
Read Quote

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

Category:
Failure
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
movies
category

All movies arent fun some are hard work. You try to do something and convey a set of emotions that have to do with some real life kind of stuff. – Samuel L. Jackson

Category:
movies

The dubbing of the music and effects is really incredible today. Youre feeling gun shots. I mean, its not the way people say it is, but the gunshot sounds real. And cars sound real. Among the many things in the evolution (of movies) is to make the sound in the movie incredible. Thats what you feel. – Joel Silver

Category:
movies

I love bad movies, whereas going to the theater for me is a painful experience. I think its really hard to sit and watch actors do something live and have it not go well. – Zoe Kazan

Category:
movies

Somebody asked me about the current choice were being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, its like two of the scariest movies I can imagine. – Dean Koontz

Category:
movies

Random Quotes

Freedom of speech is always under attack by Fascist mentality, which exists in all parts of the world, unfortunately. – Lawrence Ferlinghetti

Category:
Freedom

I hope my own children never have to fight a war. – George H. W. Bush

Category:
Hope

Nor will the sweetest delight of gardens afford much comfort in sleep; wherein the dullness of that sense shakes hands with delectable odours; and though in the bed of Cleopatra, can hardly with any delight raise up the ghost of a rose. – Sir Thomas Browne

Category:
Sleep

Every man has three characters — that which he exhibits, that which he has, and that which he thinks he has. – Alphonse Karr

Category:
Miscellaneous