If you're not making epic, archetypal films on some level, I think you're wasting a great potential of cinema.
Alexander PayneIn a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're all narratives over time, they're very different forms.
Alexander PayneWere "A Clockwork Orange" or "Blue Velvet" released today, would they have the same power to shock that they had when they came out? Are we too inured by that torrent of images and the ridiculousness of modern political life, so that nothing shocks us anymore? What does it take to shock someone today - or at least jolt them? I don't have an answer. I'm just asking the question.
Alexander PayneI 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