Alexander Payne Quotes
As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.
Quotes to Explore
-
I think good companies can navigate being public and doing the right things for their customers.
-
I never really address myself to any image anybody has of me. That's like fighting with ghosts.
-
You can get awful famous in this country in seven days.
-
It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
-
It was my wish since I was a child to become something, to be able to stand on my own two feet, to do something for myself.
-
I'm a choir girl gone horribly, desperately wrong.
-
It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
-
I love physical kinds of comedy and getting down and dirty and doing stunts. When I was growing up, I was always getting into fights with guys and usually punching out boys my age because I was a lot bigger and tougher. So I'm naturally accustomed to putting myself into the headspace of a girl who can take care of herself.
-
I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
-
Believe that with your feelings and your work you are taking part in the greatest; the more strongly you cultivate this belief, the more will reality and the world go forth from it.
-
In all chaos there is a cosmos, in all disorder a secret order.
-
The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.
-
We are laying the foundations of a government, which we hope may outlast the Pyramids.
-
This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex.
-
According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.
-
Last year I was diagnosed with osteoporosis. I was over 50, Caucasian, thin, small-framed, and I have it in my genetic history. It was almost a slam-dunk.
-
For those, like me, who can't rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.
-
You can't be an entrepreneur and work in a public company anymore.
-
I had always studied French and was obsessed with French films. I hated the way American films always had happy endings. I liked the way French films had dark and unpleasant characters; it was much more realistic.
-
At the end of the day it's about how much you can bear, how much you can endure. Being together, we harm nobody; being apart, we extinguish ourselves.
-
Let not the spirit wander while the words of prayer run on out of our mouth.
-
If I feel like I've completely drained every ounce of energy out of me for this song, and I can't go any further with it, then I stop, even if the song is unfinished. Most of the time, when it's finished, it's because I've used every ounce of me to write it.
-
As the years go by and I make more films, I am increasingly interested in capturing place as a vivid backdrop for my films.
