The actors are the greatest executors of tone in a film. They're the most important cinematic component.
I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version… - Alexander Payne
I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version…
- Alexander Payne
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
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.
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
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.
The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true. - Alexander Payne
The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor. - Alexander Payne
I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.
What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head. - Alexander Payne
What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.
If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie. - Alexander Payne
If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made. - Alexander Payne
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly. - Alexander Payne
I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
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