"I don’t feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope." ― Alexander Payne Topic(s): Hope More From Alexander Payne "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." "I mean, look, I love movies, not just the ones I make… In fact, I don’t like the movies I make very much." "I guess maybe I try to make movies that are closer to real life than are many Hollywood movies. But I still try to stay within a commercial narrative, a contemporary American vernacular." More In Hope "The one thing I would hope would go on my tombstone is, ‘I made my parents proud.’"― Roger Goodell "The worst enemy of human hope is not brute facts, but men of brains who will not face them."― Max Eastman "If the presence of electricity can be made visible in any part of the circuit, I see no reason why intelligence may not be transmitted instantaneously by electricity."― Samuel Morse