The most heinous shift in American films is that they reinforce good things like 'couples' and 'relationships.'

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• Alexander Payne:

  Marketing has supplanted story as the primary force behind the worthiness of making a film, and tha

• Alexander Payne:

  What is filmmaking but groping in the dark?

• Alexander Payne:

  You begin a film more with questions than with direct intentions. It's more of an exploration and d

• Alexander Payne:

  As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivi

• Alexander Payne:

  I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for

• Alexander Payne:

  I don't think so much about verbal comedy. I always think about visual comedy. I was raised watchin

• Alexander Payne:

  I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.

• Alexander Payne:

  There's a bizarre insistence on how a story should be. 'The protagonist must be sympathetic!' they

• Alexander Payne:

  Omaha, like Rome, is built on seven hills.

• Alexander Payne:

  If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.