Cinema Quote by Peter Greenaway Download Open image “I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound.” — Peter Greenaway ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cinema Exciting Far I think More Painting Profound Want
I don't want to be a film-maker. I think painting is far more exciting and profound. It's always at the back of my mind… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Photography and writing are marvelous distractions from painting. I might even have found movies more interesting than photography. I tried it a bit, but… — Jacques-Henri Lartigue Copy Share Image
I feel like I became an artist by default. I went to art college, but my interest was always more towards film than painting… — Sam Taylor-Johnson Copy Share Image
My interest in painting is recording things. I think of myself as almost a documentary filmmaker... I've gotten into some curious situations. — Jamie Wyeth Copy Share Image
Whereas painting is a more rarefied art form, with a limited audience, I recognized film as this extraordinary social tool that could reach tremendous… — Kathryn Bigelow Copy Share Image
I love painting. I went to college in fine arts, and I still do it all the time. — Jessalyn Gilsig Copy Share Image
Painting is a magical process that I like, where you conjure something out of nothing; you get a little idea that leads you through… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made - I try to act in the gap. — Robert Rauschenberg Copy Share Image
A painting can't be everything. You have to stop, at some point. It has to be finished, if you want anyone to see it.… — John Slattery Copy Share Image
I get so tired of painting. I've been trying to give it up all the time, if we could just make a living out… — Andy Warhol Copy Share Image
I love painting. As far as photography is concerned, I understand nothing. — Henri Cartier-Bresson Copy Share Image
American actors are coy. We all have pricks and cunts, or are you different from the rest of us? — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I want to be a prime creator - as every self-regarding artist should do. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
To be an atheist you have to have ten thousand times more imagination than if you are a religious fundamentalist. You must take the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
An American critic wrote that she would rather be forced to read the New York telephone directory three times than watch the film A… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
There are those who think that Zeffirelli's Hamlet is the way to treat Shakespeare. I think that cinema can handle much more. We somehow… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
A really intelligent man makes an indifferent painter. For painting requires a certain blindness, a partial refusal to be aware of all the options. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I have often thought it was very arrogant to suppose you could make a film for anybody but yourself. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I believe that cinema died on the 31 September 1983 when the zapper, or the remote control, was introduced into the living rooms of the world. — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
My biggest critical success was 'The Draughtsman's Contract,' but then it wasn't the English who particularly thought so; it was the French, who are… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
There are basically only two subject matters in all Western culture: sex and death. We do have some ability to manipulate sex nowadays. We… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
Cinema doesn't connect with the body as artists have in two thousand years of painting, using the nude as the central figure which the… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
I made, like, five movies while I was in college. I think they just weren't memorable movies. I've taken breaks as the years have… — Jodie Foster Copy Share Image
I'm trying to write a film with my friend. I'd love to get the thrill of speaking actors making my work even funnier. — Russell Howard Copy Share Image
I wasn't attracted to American cinema, but I fell in love with Los Angeles the minute I arrived. — Agnes Varda Copy Share Image
To an ever greater extent out experience is governed by pictures, pictures in newspapers and magazines, on television and in the cinema. Next to… — Douglas Crimp Copy Share Image
In the future, I would like to do more films with contemporary themes. Perhaps comedy, which is something I have done in theater but… — Luke Evans Copy Share Image
I am tired of our characters being so incomplete. When do we ever save the day in a film? When does a Latino actor… — Esai Morales Copy Share Image
I love film people and actors and I am in the right world because I am one of those people. — Ewan McGregor Copy Share Image
Personally, I prefer contemporary films, but the market calls for more period choices, especially since China opened up a cinema market in Hong Kong.… — Donnie Yen Copy Share Image
I'd love to work in the States; I'd love to work anywhere where you get a good script and a good part to play.… — Laura Carmichael Copy Share Image
I even see the cinema itself as a woman, with its alternation of light and darkness, of appearing and disappearing images — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
