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Inspirational Quotes by Peter Greenaway
- What are you -- some kind of addict? Is this where you come to...
- I really, sincerely believe that one should trust the work, and not the author.
- I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself.
- If you want to tell stories, be a writer, not a filmmaker.
- My favourite way of watching the cinema is the biggest possible cinema you can find, with the biggest possible screen, and the loudest possible Dolby…
- We live in a time of excess - excess population, excess information.
- I don't think we've seen any cinema yet. I think we've seen 100 years of illustrated text.
- It serves the purpose of not serving a purpose, surely quite a valid one.
- Works of art are never finished, just stopped.
- Cinema has reached a dead end.
- Bill Viola is worth ten Scorseses.
- Too many proofs spoil the truth.
- Cinema is dead, long live cinema.
- All religions have always hated females.
- Anybody who writes a diary insists it must be read by someone else.
- English culture is highly literary-based.
- I admit that death is not just about you, it's also about the people who love you.
- I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.
- I obviously irritate people. I obviously antagonise them.
- I've always been fascinated by Eisenstein.
- We all know that we're going to die, but we don't know when. That's not a blessing, that's a curse.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento