“My editor and I remain very disciplined. It's just sometimes when you're making a film, you get into the cutting room and you see a scene that's slowing you down in a certain section, but if you remove that scene then, emotionally or story-wise, another scene a half-hour later won't have the same impact. You just get stuck with it.” IfsSometimesStoriesFilmCertainHoursRoomsHalfWiseCuttingSceneImpactStuckRemoveEditorsSectionsHalf HoursSlowing Author:Alexander Payne
“Cinema really lends itself well to big, archetypal stories, you know, classic old stories and you need kind of a weird, big terrain like the Japanese plains for Samurai movies or the West. You need that for these giants to walk around.” KnowsNeedsWellsKindStoriesBigsWalksWestCinemaClassicGiantsSamuraiTerrain Author:Alexander Payne
“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.” WorldImportantStoriesFilmCultureForceBehindsFunctionMarketingAround The WorldPrimariesConsumerismComponentsWorthinessVery SadSad Things Author:Alexander Payne
“A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.” WorldYearsBookWholeStoriesMillionsWhole World Author:Alexander Payne
