Somewhat dramatic things happen, and you don't even always notice them — that's what life is.
Alexander PayneI like action films, not exclusively, but I like Samurai films. I like Westerns. Not so much war pictures, but a few. I like kinetic cinema.
Alexander PayneI'd love to be a director-for-hire and get a nice paycheck and captain one of those big ships, but I think studios mistakenly think I want to write what I direct - which I don't. I write out of desperation, because I never get a script I like, other than "Nebraska." It's a matter of: What's the screenplay? Is it intelligent? Is it human? I don't care what genre, what scale. I'm here for the movies.
Alexander PayneI think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
Alexander Payne