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