Alexander Payne Quotes About Writing

Quotes about: Writing

• I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

  Alexander Payne

  Movie, Writing, Mean

  Interview with Scott Tobias, www.avclub.com. November 15, 2011.

• All three parts of filmmaking [writing, shooting, editing] contribute to rhytm. You want the script to be a tight as possible, you want the acting to be as efficient as possible on the set, and you have enough coverage to manipulate the rhythm in the editing room, and then in the editing room you want to find the quickest possible version, even if it's a leisurely paced film. I definitely in filmmaking more and more find writing and directing a means to harvest material for editing. It's all about editing.

  Alexander Payne

  Mean, Writing, Editing

• A lot of documentaries have been made very quickly, but I think they're like frogs in an ecosystem: They're harbingers. Film is always two or three years behind, because it takes so long to write a script, get financing, and get it made. It just takes a while. But I think it's coming. It has to.

  Alexander Payne

  Writing, Thinking, Long

  Source: www.avclub.com

• I'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 Payne

  Nice, Writing, Thinking

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