Client Won't Pay Help

I have situation where a client owes me money for 37.5 Hours of Work at rate of $35 per hour ($1312.50) The rate of pay, project scope, and work to be performed is outlined in the emails we emailed and he agrees to it.

He refuses to pay me after me because he said after he spoke with a person he met and with his partner, he feels I don't share his vision. He said that after he spoke with this person he now thinks the project should be done in a different manner and he now feels dissatisfied with everything. He says I don't share his vision, so he no longer wants to continue the project and he said he use that money to go in another direction.

To some everything up quickly: I agreed to take his old website and recreate it so its update to date and modern, clean up the text add featured products and services to the site, its a electronic company. He also wanted to utilize my graphic design, SEO, and marketing services as well. He wanted all of his print work redone, and I ended up creating a new product catalog and New logo for his business along with a new slogan/tagline. I completely helped him re-brand his business. Along with that I started doing a bunch of marketing work and lead generation as well. Basically a lot of work was done, and was in the works. The project was suppose to be fairly large, and he paid me $480 so far. He insisted on hourly from the beginning so I went with that and he literally wanted me to justify every little thing I did when billing him. So after the past couple of weeks he said he wanted me to do a whole bunch of work and kick it into gear because he wanted this done asap. Then he was like just bill me for all the work on Friday (Recent) and he is like don't worry about it, what every hours you work, I will pay you immediately.

I sent him complete samples and parts of work that I completed on Friday and a complete breakdown of everything I did. So he had a ton of info and I had already started doing a bunch of marketing and lead generation up to this point. I also unfortunately educated The client on many levels in regards to what he needed to do in order to improve his business etc.

Up until he spoke to the "person" and his partner everything to my knowledge was fine. I believe he was just stringing me along or if he actually spoke to someone they may another idea about things, but non the less everyone has there own opinion on things. There is more than one way to do lots of things. He basically said he changed his mind and that its nothing personal and its just business. This answer kind of pissed me off.

I would like your opinion on how I should handle this, so I can attempt to get paid now. I would prefer not to have to take him and his Company to court, since that is a major hassle. Thank you for reading this.