"The kindest thing a director can do is look with open eyes at everything."

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Source : "Alexander Payne: 'Don't remove the lint'". Interview With Catherine Shoard, www.theguardian.com. May 10, 2012.

Alexander Payne

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“About a year after (my stories began being published), magazine editor George Scithers, suggested to me that since I was so new at being published, I must be very close to what I had to learn to move from fooling around with writing to actually producing professional stories. There are a lot of aspiring writers out there who would like to know just that. Write that book.SFWW-I is that book. It's the book I was looking for when I first started writing fiction.”
“I've come to realize that most of my intellectual postures and a lot of my intellectualism is super defensive and really symptomatic of basic fears. My one thing with the record is that I wanted to make something alien that wasn't alienating. And I think that the last thing I want is to dedicate my life to something which renders me further and further from being at home in my life - progressively more alienated and separate from myself.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“Set a goal and a program for yourself, and everything else will follow. Guaranteed.”
“Understanding one's own power is more interesting than someone being given something powerful.”

Source : Source: www.avclub.com
“Greatness be nothing unless it be lasting.”
“I have, over the years brought an enormous number of plays to television starting obviously with Nicholas Nickelby and then things like Angels In America or in Wit with Emma Thompson and Mike Nichols. So, yes, I do find that very interesting and I'm sure that down the road there will be plays that I'll want to do that way.”

Source : Source: deadline.com
“The denigration of those we love always detaches us from them in some degree. Never touch your idols: the gilding will stick to your fingers.”
“I'm not afraid to play the role of Christian Grey. Because I'm not like him. But I perfectly understand him. I never thought that he was a monster. He is simply woven from desires. As every one of us.”

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