What is filmmaking but groping in the dark? Alexander Payne More Quotes by Alexander Payne More Quotes From Alexander Payne That's how I like to do it with actors, have them really go for it and I'll tell them when it's too much. It's always easier to bring it back then to push it further. Alexander Payne easier too-much actors I always wanted 'Sideways' to be like a great 1960s Italian film. Alexander Payne sideways film italian Each one of my movies becomes easier to get off the ground. Alexander Payne easier I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing. Alexander Payne movie writing mean A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years. Alexander Payne stories book years The best cinema is about ethics. Alexander Payne ethics cinema As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films. Alexander Payne vivid film years This is how good movies get made and always have: from the gut instinct of the financiers, not just by committee and research. Alexander Payne guts instinct good-movie I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope. Alexander Payne despair want giving I don't want all of American cinema to be big cartoons that are just made to be digested by the entire world. Alexander Payne cinema cartoon world Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and that's a very sad thing. It's film only as a function of consumerism rather than as an important component of our culture, and that's everywhere around the world. Alexander Payne marketing important culture I'm considered to some degree a successful director working in Hollywood, making films my way but using studio financing. But with almost every single one, I get praised up the wazoo by people who never would have financed the films. It's: "Gee, this movie is so new and different - what do you want to do next?" "This." "Oh, that's too new and different." Alexander Payne different successful people The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything. Alexander Payne eye directors looks Hollywood films have become a cesspool of formula and it's up to us to try to change it... I feel like a preacher! But it's really true. I feel personally responsible for the future of American cinema. Me personally. Alexander Payne hollywood-films change trying But it's just that the whole country is making generally lousy films these days and has been for quite a while. That's the big problem that we all have to think about. Alexander Payne problem country thinking 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?" Then I just follow my nose. Alexander Payne I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service. Alexander Payne film self thinking You just never know when you're living in a golden age. Alexander Payne golden-age golden age I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make... In fact, I don't like the movies I make very much. Alexander Payne mean-girls movie-love looks 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 giving world
