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Alexander Payne Quotes

When you watch a movie, you don't want to feel like a machine made it. You want to feel a soul.

Alexander Payne

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: director
Nationality: american
Birth: February 10, 1961

Topics

Soul Feel You Want Watch Made

I love having different cultures around, but when the parent culture kind of dissipates, you're left thinking, 'Well, what's going on?'

Love Culture Thinking Parent You

The infamous political ads like Carly Fiorina's 'Demon Sheep' and Christine O'Donnell's 'I Am Not a Witch' are so confusing, it's almost like they were paid for by Democrats.

I Am Political Sheep Democrats Paid

With 'Total Nonstop Deletion,' my main goal is to give people the two hours of the most fun wrestling they have ever seen.

Fun People Goal Wrestling Two Seen

Sometimes it just becomes so technical that you forget what you're doing. If you start thinking about how you come down the stairs and think about how each muscle is working, you can't go down the stairs. Anyway, I'm a person who overthinks and overanalyzes everything, so if you give me one thought, it creates a lot more.

Me Start Think Thinking Thought You

I like to hear melodies that go from one extreme to the next- saxophone to a bell to a whistle, for instance.

Roscoe Mitchell

Go Bell Next Whistle Saxophone Like

Some people, both scientists and religious people, deal with uncertainty by being certain. That is dangerous in the fundamentalists and it is dangerous in the fundamentalist scientists.

People Uncertainty Dangerous Deal

I've known a lot of religious people. My mother is very religious, but she also is very private about it. When I was growing up, she never went to church. She just prayed and read her Bible and kept it to herself. I'm not from a background of flamboyant believers. It's much more a personal issue.

Michael Shannon

Mother People Growing Up Bible Never

What's great about collaborating is getting to work with wonderful people. That's what theatre is about: other people getting you to give your best, and getting everyone else's best out of them.

Jason Robert Brown

Work Great Best People Theatre You

I don't judge anybody who chose not to serve during Vietnam, at all. It's a different time, and I don't judge anybody for the decision they made.

Time Decision Judge Vietnam Serve

Inordinate desire for material possessions can become an obsession that consumes our thoughts, drains our resources, and leads to unhappiness.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Thoughts Desire Become Resources Our

I was 26 years old when I found out that I had a sister who I never knew existed.

Dominique Moceanu

Sister Never Old Years Out Knew

Once you become predictable, no one's interested anymore.

You Become Predictable Interested

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