Alexander Payne Quotes About Books

Quotes about: Books

• Even if we die at 100, we're still dying young. I want at least 700 years. There's a lot of travelling and books to read and movies to see. I'm not going to squeeze it all in in 85 years.

  Alexander Payne

  Book, Years, Dying

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

• A book is a book, but a movie is a movie. The more faithful you are, the more you'll come up with Harry Potter #1 and #2, which are like filmed books on tape. They're so petrified of turning off the readers that they make no concessions to the fact that they're trying to make a piece of cinema.

  Alexander Payne

  Book, Faithful, Trying

  Source: www.avclub.com

• A book suggests a whole world and story that I could have never thought of in a million years.

  Alexander Payne

  Book, Years, Stories

  "Alexander Payne Talks THE DESCENDANTS and His Next Two Projects NEBRASKA and WILSON". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. November 17, 2011.

• I could never be a part of an adaptation of a film where there's pressure to not disappoint the immense fan base. In those cases, they often wind up with filmed books on tape, quite uncinematic. Having said that, I'd say all the adaptations I've done are quite faithful to the original... You have to pick and choose which storylines and plot threads, because you don't have the time to kill in the film as they have in novels. All those pages with detours and plots and different storylines. But films add a lot, and you gotta keep it moving.

  Alexander Payne

  Moving, Book, Wind

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

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