Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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The better a novel is, in literary terms, the more you can't be faithful. The novel succeeds on terms exclusive to literature. A good film succeeds on terms exclusive to the cinema. That's why so many bad novels can become good movies.

Alexander Payne's Popular Quotes

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

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

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

- 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.

- Alexander Payne

I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.

- Alexander Payne

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

- Alexander Payne

If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.

- Alexander Payne

I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.

- Alexander Payne