Alexander Payne's very specific. His scripts are always complete when you start working on them.
“I really would rather have gone to New York, since all my training had been in theater, but I didn't have the guts to go there alone. I knew only one person in New York, and that was a man. What I needed was a woman. That's the way Southern girls thought.”
“I am very lucky because I am realizing my childhood dreams, and after presenting my shows it's like a party.”