A Quote by Alexander Payne

The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas.

Alexander Payne

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Alexander Payne
American - Director
Born: February 10, 1961

My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. That's the real goal.

Alexander Payne

Finding new voices with fresh ideas is the hardest and most rewarding part of a television executive's job.

Nina Tassler

I think that's the hardest part for an artist is finding their voice and learning how to write, finding what they have to say that is unique.

Morgan James

The hardest part is making the time to write. Not finding the time to write, mind you. Making.

Carmen Agra Deedy

I think that making a movie is not just making the movie - it is also about having thoughtful ideas and embracing all the aspects of its launch.

Luca Guadagnino

The hardest part of art-making is living your life in such a way that your work gets done-over and over-and that means, among other things, finding a host of practices that are just plain useful.

David Bayles

Finding the right subject is the hardest part.

Mary Ellen Mark

I used to worry that I had a finite supply of ideas, that I should hold on to each of them in case it was the last. But then I talked to other cartoonists, and I realized ideas are cheap; you can have a million ideas. The tricky part is the follow-through: making good ones work, making the best out of the raw material!

Ryan North

The hardest part about writing fiction is finding long stretches of time to do it: for me, this means writing mostly on Saturdays and Sundays. But I am always thinking about my characters, jotting down ideas in stolen moments and hoping I'll be able to make sense of them when the weekend rolls around.

J. Courtney Sullivan

I think making a great action movie is one of the hardest cinematic endeavors. By definition, smart characters avoid action. Smart people don't go down dark alleys, but if you're making an action movie and you want to have an action sequence, somehow you have to get that character into that dangerous situation.

Doug Liman

The hardest part about being vegan is shoes. I mean, really, that's the only difficult part, finding shoes that don't have leather on them.

Lisa Edelstein

You're in the middle of making a movie and this part of the process is always very interesting. Because you think what you're making your movie is and then you start putting it out there, and then people tell you what your movie is.

Peter Berg

Every movie I've done, it's always the same criteria: finding a great story, and finding a great part to play.

Alden Ehrenreich

Making a movie: It's so hard. It's the hardest of all the things I do.

Miranda July

The hardest thing in making a movie is to keep in the front of your consciousness your original response to the material. Because that's going to be the thing that will make the movie. And the loss of that will break the movie.