If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did that you'd forgotten about, you'd weep, looking at that day.
From Alexander Payne
My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas.
I think that Peter Jennings is the only decent one of the big three.
The best cinema is about ethics.
If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with.
I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.
I never wanted money worries to slow me down or make me take a job I didn't want.
They say you can do honest, sincere work for decades, but you're given in general a 10-year period when what you do touches the zeitgeist - when you're relevant. And I'm aware of that, and I don't want my time to go by.
Life mixes tones all the time.
I like to think of film-making not just as an act of personal self-aggrandisement but rather as an act of public service.
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