If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day. Alexander Payne More Quotes by Alexander Payne More Quotes From Alexander Payne You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and discovery. Alexander Payne more questions you discovery 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 they-say story never know If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with. Alexander Payne best know you life