Able Quote by Alexander Payne Download Open image “I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.” — Alexander Payne ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Able Cinema Despair Feels Film Giving Hope Want
I feel like my job is to give hope. The world is in a dark place and we are living in somewhat of a… — Hany Abu-Assad Copy Share Image
I'm happy - at times - making films. I'm certainly unhappy not making films. — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
As long as I can make the films I want to make in decent conditions, I am happy. — Yorgos Lanthimos Copy Share Image
I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite. — Jason Blum Copy Share Image
I'm not really equipped to do anything else but making movies. In every other aspect of my life I'm a total failure. — Michael Pitt Copy Share Image
I have an intense obsession with making films. I not only love to make films, I perhaps need to make films. — Jacqueline Bisset Copy Share Image
I am miserable when I'm in a movie I'm not proud of and a movie that I don't want to do. — Ryan Phillippe Copy Share Image
I love making films. I'm happiest when I'm doing it. For me, the fear is not being able to make the next thing and… — Ava DuVernay Copy Share Image
If I can't make the kind of film that I want to make, then the hell with it. — Peter Weir Copy Share Image
I've made movies where I was not happy, and I'd rather not work for a year than do a bad film. It takes a… — Franka Potente Copy Share Image
I don't think I'll ever get tired of making films. I wish I could make so many that it would make me get tired,… — Takashi Miike Copy Share Image
It feels bad when a film doesn't work; everyone puts in a lot of effort to make a movie. The positive side to failure… — Shahid Kapoor Copy Share Image
I spend a long time casting, but once I've cast a film there's a reason why I selected those people. So I'm hands-on in… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
Forgiving yourself may be for many people, at least for myself, extremely difficult. And then in a larger context, I will say that I'm… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
In a general sense, to convert any short story, novel, play, or opera into a movie, you have to re-rig it. Even though they're… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
If you're trying to recreate life, the life that you best know is the one you grew up with. — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I think about what movie I would like to see. I don't think of them as a correction or palliative. I certainly am irritated… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
If you were falling in love and you could go back in time and relive a day and see the banal things you did… — Alexander Payne Copy Share Image
I am certain that children always know more than they are able to tell, and that makes the big difference between them and adults,… — Jacques Lusseyran Copy Share Image
I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any… — Huey Lewis Copy Share Image
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I have that need in me, I want everyone to love me, but I'm embarrassed by that need, so I wanted to cover it… — Anthony Jeselnik Copy Share Image
Thinking about the things that happened, I don't know any other ball player would could have done what he (Jackie Robinson) did. To be… — Pee Wee Reese Copy Share Image
Government schools, with your tax money, now discourage the teaching of multiplication tables by rote memorization but teach reading by the 'look-and-say' method which… — Greg Perry Copy Share Image
I don't know if I would qualify as mainstream. I think I have managed to function pretty successfully on the fringes of the music… — Pat Metheny Copy Share Image
What we're supposed to do as actors is be able to portray real human beings and emotions. And if you grow up in this… — Emily Browning Copy Share Image
The reason that Apple is able to create products like iPad is because we always try to be at the intersection of technology and… — Steve Jobs Copy Share Image