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Alexander Payne Quotes

American - Director | February 10, 1961 -

Well, that's what life is - this collection of extraordinarily ordinary moments. We just need to pay attention to them all. Wake up and pay attention to how beautiful it all is.

Alexander Payne

Life Beautiful Wake Up Moments Need

I still have energy and some degree of youth, which is what a filmmaker needs.

Alexander Payne

Youth Energy Degree Filmmaker Still

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

Alexander Payne

Fear Die True Will Regrets Come

They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.

Alexander Payne

Work Time You Go Say Want

I want all of my films to belong to me.

Alexander Payne

Me Want Belong Films

My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.

Alexander Payne

Ideas Looking Flying Flag Out Movie

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

Alexander Payne

Ideas Finding Endeavor Whole Hardest

A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

Alexander Payne

World Book Story Thought Never

Life mixes tones all the time.

Alexander Payne

Life Time Tones

The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything.

Alexander Payne

Eyes Look Director Open Everything

Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

Alexander Payne

Die Young Want Movies Dying See

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

Life American Movies Hollywood Try

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